Category Ethiopian Air
Daily Insight: 25 March 2019: Is the Worst Over for Boeing, MAX, and the FAA?
Last week was a tumultuous week in aviation, as the investigation into the crash of ET302 led to several revelations about the 737 MAX and the process through which it was certified. Enough questions have been raised that the FBI…
Ethiopia ATC strike: a risk to crews and passengers?
Ops Group put out an urgent message that warrants attention. “Last week, 120 Ethiopian Air Traffic Controllers announced a strike. Approximately 100 of them have now been banned from operating, and 10 of them – including the Chief Controller, Senior…
Ethiopian Airlines is Africa’s top airline
Take a look at a brief history of Africa’s biggest airlines at a few points in time. It wasn’t until only a few years ago that Ethiopian even was among the top five. Today it is the uncontested biggest African…
Ethiopian’s Africa strategy
Ethiopian’s CEO Tewolde GebreMariam is building a series of alliances across Africa. A 45% stake in the new Zambia Airways, 49 % in a new Chad Airlines, 49% in Guinea Airlines and 100% of Ethiopia Mozambique Airlines. Let’s take a…
Are aging fleets a problem?
With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…