ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES Group, the flag carrier of Ethiopia, Africa’s largest airline group, has upsized four of its A350-900 on order to the largest variant of the A350 Family, the A350-1000, becoming Africa’s first customer for the aircraft.
Ethiopian Airlines has already ordered 22 A350-900s, of which 16 aircraft have been delivered. With the A350-1000 upsizing, Ethiopian Airlines’ backlog consists of four A350-1000s and two A350-900s.
Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Mr. Mesfin Tasew said: “We are delighted over the upsizing of the A350-900 on order to the largest variant, A350-1000, that helps us stay ahead of the curve in technology. We are the technology leaders in the continent introducing the latest technology and fuel-efficient fleet into Africa.
“The A350-1000 is the best fit for our dense routes, and we believe that the upsizing will be instrumental in satisfying the increasing demand of customers in our vast global network across five continents. We will continue on keeping ourselves abreast of aviation technology advancements to enhance our service and fulfil customers’ demand.
”We are proud of our strong partnership with Ethiopian Airlines – the first airline in Africa to order and operate the A350-900. In another first, Ethiopian Airlines is once again leading the way in Africa’s aviation sector by introducing the A350-1000, the largest version of the world’s most efficient and technologically advanced passenger aircraft.” said Mikail Houari, President, Airbus Africa and Middle East.
“The A350-900 has delivered extraordinary capability, fuel efficiency, and operational reliability of 99.5 percent together with unbeatable operational flexibility and efficiency, from short to ultra-long-range operations.”
The A350-1000 will increase the East African carrier’s capacity and it will be an addition to its modern wide-body fleet. The airline will benefit from a flexible, high- value Family leveraging Airbus’ unprecedented level of commonality and same type rating.
The Airbus A350’s clean-sheet design features state-of-the-art aerodynamics, a carbon-fibre fuselage and wings, plus the most fuel-efficient Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines.
Together, these latest technologies translate into unrivalled levels of operational efficiency and sustainability for Ethiopian Airlines, with a 25% reduction in fuel-burn and CO2 emissions compared to previous generation twin-aisle aircraft.
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Ethiopian Airline is the vision and fruit of Empire Haile Selassie, who stems from the Royal line of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Whatever failures the Empire had; The Empire pioneered positive infrastructure for his Ethiopian Subjects.
It is great to witness Ethiopia becoming the foremost African Nation.
Let us hope all the aircraft’s software glitches are revealed to the African pilots by the Aircraft manufacturers, to avoid future tragedies.
I hope that any software glitches are FIXED rather than revealed. Once they are known about, an aircraft wouldn’t be allowed to fly until safety issues have been resolved.
Wasn’t there just something in the news about Ethiopian airline pilots feel a sleep and was woken up by a alarm after missing the landing
Yeah sleeping on board is not something fair considering the short haul flight distance. It mustn’t happen. Resource crew management should fix this issues for all carriers not only Ethiopian.
Mr. Mesfin Tasew is he better manager than Mr Tewelde?
I believe this company has a serious problem of pushing their pilots too hard to the point of fatigue and to the point of sleeping while in duty. This is a serious problem and should be addressed first before expanding their fleet. More airplanes means recruiting more pilots, not pushing existing pilots into extra fatigue.
Yes, i was also surprised how two pilots can sleep at the same time in the cockpit to an extent they over flew their destination, without being bias, automatically that shows they were fatigued, over to you Mr CEO, don’t look for fame by forgetting your Passengers safety.
In the latest development of the war in northern province of Tigray, the Ethiopian Army has been engaged to root out the terrorist organization, aka TPLF; it sounds like a smear campaign against the Ethiopian Airlines just to make this successful airlines to look like something of different. So far we have not collaborated the incident with anything. We don’t even know the out come of the investigation.