Posted Mon, 30 Oct 2006
Addis Ababa - Ethiopian Airlines announced that it would launch direct flights to Southern Sudan capital Juba, from November 16 following increased demand for its services in that country.
"The new service has been carefully designed to provide business travellers to and from Juba a direct link to Addis Ababa with convenient connections to the rest of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and vice-versa," the airline's public relations department said.
As Southern Sudan emerges from a long civil war, Ethiopian Airline's flights to Juba were expected to bring that area closer to the world and also boost economic partnerships.
Located on the banks of the White Nile, Juba was Sudan's second most populated city with over 160 000 inhabitants.
The Addis Ababa-Juba flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with 111 passenger-capacity Boeing 737-200 aircraft, would bring Ethiopian Airline's total destinations in Africa to 29 and 47 worldwide.
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Meanwhile, the airline has also announced plans to increase its services in Africa from October 29 with 11 weekly flights to Lagos, eight to Accra, daily to Khartoum and Johannesburg, six times to Dakar, five times to N'djamena and four times to Lome.
Two daily flights to Dubai were also to be introduced on the same day. -panapress
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