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Monday, November 27, 2006
Emirates to Fly Daily to Addis Ababa
Kaleyesus Bekele
Emirates started to fly to Addis Ababa in March 2006. The airline flies to Addis Ababa on Monday, Wednesday and Friday using an Airbus A340-300 aircraft. The Airline will add four additional flights to the existing three per week. It will provide a daily non-stop service as of December 1. Emirates has become a strong rival to Ethiopian Airlines.
"A growing focus on Africa with scheduled enhancements to the existing operations in Egypt, Ethiopia and Tanzania marks the start of Emirates' winter schedule," the Airline said. "Connections to East Africa will also improve as Emirates introduces direct non-stop flights between Dubai and Dar es Salaam, putting an end to the service which originally operated via Nairobi," it added. Currently, Dubai's trade with Africa is worth over 27 million dollars.
Emirates launched its operations in October 1985 with two leased aircraft. Today the Airline operates in 85 destinations with 92 aircraft. The Airline uses a mixed fleet comprising Boeing and Airbus aircraft. At Dubai 2005 International Aerospace Exhibition, Emirates announced firm orders for 42 B777 aircraft to be powered by GE90 jet engines, in a deal worth 9.7 billion dollars. The airline has also placed an order for 45 airbus A380 ultramodern Jumbo aircraft.
Emirates' current order book stands at 123 aircraft with a total value of 33 billon dollars. Emirates group, wholly owned by the Dubai government, announced, record net profit of 762 million dollars for the financial year ended March 2006. The group's total revenue has increased by 27 percent to 6.6 billion compared to last year
Emirates started to fly to Addis Ababa in March 2006. The airline flies to Addis Ababa on Monday, Wednesday and Friday using an Airbus A340-300 aircraft. The Airline will add four additional flights to the existing three per week. It will provide a daily non-stop service as of December 1. Emirates has become a strong rival to Ethiopian Airlines.
"A growing focus on Africa with scheduled enhancements to the existing operations in Egypt, Ethiopia and Tanzania marks the start of Emirates' winter schedule," the Airline said. "Connections to East Africa will also improve as Emirates introduces direct non-stop flights between Dubai and Dar es Salaam, putting an end to the service which originally operated via Nairobi," it added. Currently, Dubai's trade with Africa is worth over 27 million dollars.
Emirates launched its operations in October 1985 with two leased aircraft. Today the Airline operates in 85 destinations with 92 aircraft. The Airline uses a mixed fleet comprising Boeing and Airbus aircraft. At Dubai 2005 International Aerospace Exhibition, Emirates announced firm orders for 42 B777 aircraft to be powered by GE90 jet engines, in a deal worth 9.7 billion dollars. The airline has also placed an order for 45 airbus A380 ultramodern Jumbo aircraft.
Emirates' current order book stands at 123 aircraft with a total value of 33 billon dollars. Emirates group, wholly owned by the Dubai government, announced, record net profit of 762 million dollars for the financial year ended March 2006. The group's total revenue has increased by 27 percent to 6.6 billion compared to last year
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Lions Miss Out On Country's Tourism Growth
Addis Ababa
Despite Africa recording the World's fastest tourist growth for the second year running according to the UNWTO, and Ethiopia showing good progress too, one of the East Africa country's zoos has had to poison rare lions to make ends meet.
Lion Zoo in Addis Ababa has had to kill the country's treasured Abyssinian Lions as entrance fees did not cover the running costs.
Zoo administrator Muhedin Abdulaziz said the park only received $5000 at the gate, while it cost $6000 to run the zoo.
The zoo was poisoning the lions and selling the bodies to taxidermists for $170 each.
Growth in the tourism segment has not been enough to save the lions at the 58-year-old zoo. Unless the zoo quickly invests to ensure that more tourists visited the zoo, through marketing and facilty upgrades, the Abyssinian Lions may in the future only be found on national coins and statues.
Business in Africa
Sunday, November 19, 2006
The rise of the global airline alliance, the fall of the national carrier, and the fate of sovereignty in the skies
In 1945, Emperor Haile Selassie established Ethiopian Airlines (with the help of TWA), which the next year began flights from Addis Ababa to Cairo. As Anthony Sampson recounts in "Empires of the Sky," other African countries were so desperate to establish flag carriers that Royal Swazi operated a fleet with only two planes and Air Botswana just three; at its founding, Gambia Airways was known as "Gambia Stairways" because it did little more than service other airlines.
By Sasha Issenberg November 19, 2006
US AIRWAYS'S HOSTILE BID for Delta last week has ensured that talk of airline consolidation will fill the business pages well into the new year. It may have also assured that a quieter, yet perhaps equally significant, agreement between airlines may go unnoticed.Early next year, when Japan Airlines becomes a member of the Oneworld Alliance, an underappreciated chapter will close in the history of the airline industry -- and indeed in the history of the modern nation-state. JAL, the last large international airline to sign onto one of the three major cooperative partnerships, will join the smallest of them, currently dominated by British Airways and American Airlines. JAL's move marks the culmination of a decade-long flurry of agreements and treaties that have divided the air among Oneworld, c, and the Star Alliance in much the same way that the great powers divided the earth at the turn of the last century. It also marks the symbolic death of one of that era's defining institutions: the flag carrier.
In the 20th century, there was perhaps no more important trophy of sovereignty than the parastatal airline -- "the chosen instrument of the state," as Britain's Imperial Airways described itself in the 1930s, when Air France and the Soviet Union's Aeroflot also first took to the skies.
For the new countries of the post-imperial epoch, meanwhile, a state-owned airline, like sending an athlete to the Olympics and occupying a seat in the United Nations General Assembly, was an indispensable step on the road to statehood. In 1945, Emperor Haile Selassie established Ethiopian Airlines (with the help of TWA), which the next year began flights from Addis Ababa to Cairo. As Anthony Sampson recounts in "Empires of the Sky," other African countries were so desperate to establish flag carriers that Royal Swazi operated a fleet with only two planes and Air Botswana just three; at its founding, Gambia Airways was known as "Gambia Stairways" because it did little more than service other airlines.
Japan Airlines was founded in 1952, at the end of the United States' postwar occupation. The traditional crane on the tail of JAL aircraft was conceived as the aerodynamic ambassador of a peacetime nation with something of an image problem when it came to airplanes.
But where flags once ruled, now the skies belong to coalitions. Alliances have their origins in reciprocal frequent-flier exchanges and bilateral code-sharing practices that allow airlines to lease and sell seats on each others' flights. Such cooperation was pioneered by Northwest and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, whose 1991 pact permitted flyers to move (along with their luggage and a single ticket) between connecting flights on the two airlines as though they were a single carrier.
Today, such alliances offer economic efficiencies worth more than national pride. JAL spokesman Stephen Pearlman noted that Oneworld offers the prospect of combining sales and airport lounge operations. "Multilateral alliances have matured since they started some years ago," he said. They've also expanded their reach. Airtran and Frontier Airlines announced last week that they would forge the first alliance of low-cost carriers.
Countries that once wanted to impress with autonomy now are interested in displaying their integration in the global economy, and are looking to join alliances instead of hoisting their own flags. When, earlier this year, South Africa Airways became the first African carrier to join an alliance, local media trumpeted a national victory and Thabo Mbeki celebrated by welcoming Star Alliance executives to his presidential guesthouse.
This globalization of airline power has stripped airport concourses of their United Nations-like pageantry and replaced it with a bland iconography typical of transnational corporations. Travelers find themselves checking into Oneworld counters and having a cocktail in a Skyteam lounge and, increasingly, boarding a jumbo jet whose fuselage and tail are emblazoned not with the name and colors of a country but the Star Alliance insignia and its banal navy-and-white scheme. (The operating airline's logo usually remains in fine print below.)
But alliances pose more than just an aesthetic threat to national identity -- they can also lead to the type of industry consolidation that is putting parastatals out of business. Air France and KLM had already begun to integrate operations as Skyteam mates before the two joined in 2004, easing their way into a merger that created the largest airline company in the world. Sabena, the airline of neighboring Belgium, failed to join one of the major alliances, and folded in 2001.
Even though Air France and KLM continue to operate flights under their own brands, the planes next to them on European tarmacs are increasingly vagabond low-cost carriers like Easyjet and Vueling that project a studied placelessness. The most successful of them, the Dublin-based RyanAir, is now rumbling about acquiring Aer Lingus, Ireland's 70-year-old national airline.
There is still a place in which flyers, giddy with the thrills of statehood, cling eagerly to their new parastatals. At the newly rebuilt Sarajevo International Airport, where the airy departure hall and freshly pristine macadam are both free of the pockmarks that still pattern most Bosnian building surfaces, the arrivals board reads like a monument to the Balkans' nation-building success. There the nascent national airlines of young former Yugoslavian states -- Croatia Airlines, Slovenia's Adria Airways, Serbia's Jat Air, and Bosnia and Herzegovina's B&H Airlines, previously Air Bosna -- hold their own alongside the venerable flag carriers Alitalia, Turkish, and Malev Hungarian Airlines.
Amid blurred lines of religious and ethnic character, such public displays of national identity may be essential. Entangling empires, after all, sit ominously in Balkan memories. It was just a few miles from the airport where, in 1914, an Austro-Hungarian figurehead was shot for having the audacity to parade through Sarajevo on a Serbian national feast day.
Yet the Balkans will not likely be able to avoid the expansion of alliances for long. On Ferhadija, Sarajevo's main pedestrian strip, near the intersection where Austro-Hungarian paving stones auspiciously give way to Ottoman cobble, the shingle outside the Adria Airways sales office describes the company as a "Regional Member of the Star Alliance," a status it has held since 2004. Across the street, the Slovenian flagship's proud outpost is dwarfed by the oversized logos of Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, the alliance's Mitteleuropean full members. It is perhaps no coincidence Adria joined the Star Alliance the same year Slovenia acceded to the European Union.
In January, Slovenians -- after just 15 years of independence, following the fall of Yugoslavia -- will trade in their battered tolar coins for euros. For now, the news fills them with a new, postnationalist variety of pride: This summer, the Slovenian government hosted a street party in Brussels to celebrate. Any 21st-century country can have its own currency, after all, but paying with euros is for the select few, just as everyone from Bangladesh to Peru can claim a homegrown airline, but only the elite get to code-share with Singapore Airlines or United. Let's see how that warm feeling fares after some adverse decision made in Brussels or, perhaps, when the national beer on board is replaced with Heineken.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Ethiopian, Russian Agree to Manufacture Hydro Electric Power-Driven Buses
Ethiopian, Russian Agree to Manufacture Hydro Electric Power-Driven Buses
Addis Ababa, 14 November: Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise and two Russian companies signed an agreement providing for the assembling and manufacturing of hydro electric power-driven buses here at Ethiopian Investment Agency on Tuesday [14 November].
The accord was signed by Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise general manager, Engineer Getachew Eshetu, Trolza Company president, Pavel Berlin, and Rus-Afro-trol board head, Ayavazov Yury.
According to the agreement a company called Rus-Afro-trol would be established in a joint venture to assemble and promote the buses in Ethiopia and Africa as well.
Speaking at the agreement signing ceremony, Engineer Getachew said the buses would be the first in Africa.
The total capital of the project is 100m US dollar, he said, and added, that some 43 hectares of land has already been prepared to establish the assembling plant in Debremarkos town of the Amhara State [northwestern Ethiopia].
Getachew said the project would be started as of next January and assembling of the first buses would be finalized in six months time. Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise has 70 per cent ownership share of the company, while 30 per cent of the ownership belongs to the Russian companies, he said. The company has a capacity of assembling 500 buses per year, he said. When the project goes fully operational, it would create 500 jobs, Getachew added.
Speaking on his part, Pavel Berlin said the hydro power driven buses are environment-friendly and efficient in fuel consumption. The company has decided to erect the first plant in Ethiopia as it is the hub of Africa, he said, adding, the company has a plan to expand the service to other African countries in the future.
Speaking at the occasion Ethiopian Investment Agency director general, Abi Woldemeskel, said as Ethiopia is endowed with immense hydroelectric power the launching of the project is viable both economically and environmentally.
He said the agency would render the necessary assistance for the success of the project.
(c) 2006 BBC Monitoring Africa. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
Source: BBC Monitoring Africa
Addis Ababa, 14 November: Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise and two Russian companies signed an agreement providing for the assembling and manufacturing of hydro electric power-driven buses here at Ethiopian Investment Agency on Tuesday [14 November].
The accord was signed by Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise general manager, Engineer Getachew Eshetu, Trolza Company president, Pavel Berlin, and Rus-Afro-trol board head, Ayavazov Yury.
According to the agreement a company called Rus-Afro-trol would be established in a joint venture to assemble and promote the buses in Ethiopia and Africa as well.
Speaking at the agreement signing ceremony, Engineer Getachew said the buses would be the first in Africa.
The total capital of the project is 100m US dollar, he said, and added, that some 43 hectares of land has already been prepared to establish the assembling plant in Debremarkos town of the Amhara State [northwestern Ethiopia].
Getachew said the project would be started as of next January and assembling of the first buses would be finalized in six months time. Afro-Asia Technical Trading Enterprise has 70 per cent ownership share of the company, while 30 per cent of the ownership belongs to the Russian companies, he said. The company has a capacity of assembling 500 buses per year, he said. When the project goes fully operational, it would create 500 jobs, Getachew added.
Speaking on his part, Pavel Berlin said the hydro power driven buses are environment-friendly and efficient in fuel consumption. The company has decided to erect the first plant in Ethiopia as it is the hub of Africa, he said, adding, the company has a plan to expand the service to other African countries in the future.
Speaking at the occasion Ethiopian Investment Agency director general, Abi Woldemeskel, said as Ethiopia is endowed with immense hydroelectric power the launching of the project is viable both economically and environmentally.
He said the agency would render the necessary assistance for the success of the project.
(c) 2006 BBC Monitoring Africa. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
Source: BBC Monitoring Africa
New 5-Star Hotel to Usher in Ethiopian Millennium
Hayal Alemayehu
Addis Ababa
Sporting a swimming pool at its top tenth floor, the first part of a new 400 million birr five-star hotel - Intercontinental Addis - will open its door for services before the New Ethiopian Millennium sets in, Project Manager Gudeta Regasa disclosed to The Daily Monitor.
The first phase of the hotel project, whose construction commenced ten months earlier at a 2346 square meters plot of land located around Kasanchese, in Kirkose sub-city, Kebele 17, will be completed in few months' time if all goes according to plan, Gudeta said.
Projected to consume 200 million birr, the hotel's first phase project will be a ten-story high building, which will have 151 rooms and suites, five restaurants, discotheque, gyms, sauna & steam baths, and Jacuzzis, with all the facilities meeting an international five-star hotel category standards, according to the Manager.
Compared to existing hotels in the country, Intercontinental Addis will, according to the Project Manager, entertain unique features which include transparent elevators, a tenth-floor swimming pool with a bar that serves customers while inside the pool, rooms and suites all operating with electronic-locking solution cards.
Presently, there are only two five-star hotels in the country, namely Sheraton Addis and Addis Ababa Hilton.
The new hotel, destined to be the third five-star resort in the country, is being erected and owned by J.H. Simex plc, a private local company active in export/import trade.
Upon completion of the first phase of the project, the hotel will start rendering services, while its second phase, which is also projected to cost 200 million birr, will commence, according to Company Proprietor Simachew Kebede.
2006 The Daily Monitor
Addis Ababa
Sporting a swimming pool at its top tenth floor, the first part of a new 400 million birr five-star hotel - Intercontinental Addis - will open its door for services before the New Ethiopian Millennium sets in, Project Manager Gudeta Regasa disclosed to The Daily Monitor.
The first phase of the hotel project, whose construction commenced ten months earlier at a 2346 square meters plot of land located around Kasanchese, in Kirkose sub-city, Kebele 17, will be completed in few months' time if all goes according to plan, Gudeta said.
Projected to consume 200 million birr, the hotel's first phase project will be a ten-story high building, which will have 151 rooms and suites, five restaurants, discotheque, gyms, sauna & steam baths, and Jacuzzis, with all the facilities meeting an international five-star hotel category standards, according to the Manager.
Compared to existing hotels in the country, Intercontinental Addis will, according to the Project Manager, entertain unique features which include transparent elevators, a tenth-floor swimming pool with a bar that serves customers while inside the pool, rooms and suites all operating with electronic-locking solution cards.
Presently, there are only two five-star hotels in the country, namely Sheraton Addis and Addis Ababa Hilton.
The new hotel, destined to be the third five-star resort in the country, is being erected and owned by J.H. Simex plc, a private local company active in export/import trade.
Upon completion of the first phase of the project, the hotel will start rendering services, while its second phase, which is also projected to cost 200 million birr, will commence, according to Company Proprietor Simachew Kebede.
2006 The Daily Monitor
Ethiopian Employees Elect New Board Reps
Feven Chane
The Ethiopian Airlines Board of Directors, on October 26, 2006, saw the replacement of three labour representatives who had served on the Board for the past five years.
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In accordance to elections that are held every five years, the employees voted-in were Reta Melaku and Theodros Balcha, both instructors from the Aviation Maintenance Training School (AMTS) and Alemayehu Assefa, IT System and operation manager.
They replace outgoing representatives Biniam Hirabo, director of Spray Service; Matewos Menu, director of Material Management and Girma Kumbi, a foreman in Aircraft Maintenance.
The election, which was organized by the Human Resources Department, took place at the Ethiopian Conference Centre on Algeria Avenue in Sidist Kilo.
A source from the Ethiopian Airlines Labour Union told Fortune that anyone that has worked with the Airline for a reasonable length of time and has good knowledge on the working environment of the entire operation in addition to their own line of responsibility are eligible for nomination.
The three outgoing representatives came to the job with more than 20 years of work experience with Ethiopian.
Matewos told Fortune that during the five years that he and his colleagues served on the 11-member Board - chaired by Seyoum Mesfin, Minister of Foreign Affairs - they had been able to play an important role in achieving a 20pc growth in the Airlines' profit and also managed to secure a 60pc salary increase for its employees over the span of two years. A 40pc raise was given in the fiscal year 2003 - 2004 and a 20pc increase in 2004 -2005.
He claimed that the Board was also responsible for having Ethiopian awarded the Best Airline Performance in Africa by The Africa Aviation Journal in 2006 and moreover oversaw the construction of the new cargo terminal from November 2003 to January 2006, as well as approved the purchase of the five Boeing Dreamliner aircrafts.
"We have fulfilled all of this during the past five years, which were the best performance years in the Airline's history. We leave our positions very much delighted," Matewos said.
The labour representatives on the Board serve as a managing body and are involved in handling large scale employee cases and incidents.
The Labour Union handles cases concerning labour rights and privileges. It ensures employee safety provision while on the job and salary increment. The union has 10 executive members and 10 general assembly members, with a reshuffle held every three years.
A member of the Union told Fortune that when conflicts of interest between them and the management arises; he said that in such incidents, they can call on the Board to find a resolution to the matter at hand.An Ethiopian Airlines staff member told Fortune that he believed that more ideas can be received from the new representatives, because two of them are instructors who interact with a wide spectrum of employees.
Also, this employee said, Theodros has been a member of the Labour Union this has proved himself to be a responsible worker. He said that he also felt confident because all three members were socially very active with the employees as well as the management.
Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 and currently has 4,762 employees working in Ethiopia alone.
© 2006 Addis Fortune.
The Ethiopian Airlines Board of Directors, on October 26, 2006, saw the replacement of three labour representatives who had served on the Board for the past five years.
In accordance to elections that are held every five years, the employees voted-in were Reta Melaku and Theodros Balcha, both instructors from the Aviation Maintenance Training School (AMTS) and Alemayehu Assefa, IT System and operation manager.
They replace outgoing representatives Biniam Hirabo, director of Spray Service; Matewos Menu, director of Material Management and Girma Kumbi, a foreman in Aircraft Maintenance.
The election, which was organized by the Human Resources Department, took place at the Ethiopian Conference Centre on Algeria Avenue in Sidist Kilo.
A source from the Ethiopian Airlines Labour Union told Fortune that anyone that has worked with the Airline for a reasonable length of time and has good knowledge on the working environment of the entire operation in addition to their own line of responsibility are eligible for nomination.
The three outgoing representatives came to the job with more than 20 years of work experience with Ethiopian.
Matewos told Fortune that during the five years that he and his colleagues served on the 11-member Board - chaired by Seyoum Mesfin, Minister of Foreign Affairs - they had been able to play an important role in achieving a 20pc growth in the Airlines' profit and also managed to secure a 60pc salary increase for its employees over the span of two years. A 40pc raise was given in the fiscal year 2003 - 2004 and a 20pc increase in 2004 -2005.
He claimed that the Board was also responsible for having Ethiopian awarded the Best Airline Performance in Africa by The Africa Aviation Journal in 2006 and moreover oversaw the construction of the new cargo terminal from November 2003 to January 2006, as well as approved the purchase of the five Boeing Dreamliner aircrafts.
"We have fulfilled all of this during the past five years, which were the best performance years in the Airline's history. We leave our positions very much delighted," Matewos said.
The labour representatives on the Board serve as a managing body and are involved in handling large scale employee cases and incidents.
The Labour Union handles cases concerning labour rights and privileges. It ensures employee safety provision while on the job and salary increment. The union has 10 executive members and 10 general assembly members, with a reshuffle held every three years.
A member of the Union told Fortune that when conflicts of interest between them and the management arises; he said that in such incidents, they can call on the Board to find a resolution to the matter at hand.An Ethiopian Airlines staff member told Fortune that he believed that more ideas can be received from the new representatives, because two of them are instructors who interact with a wide spectrum of employees.
Also, this employee said, Theodros has been a member of the Labour Union this has proved himself to be a responsible worker. He said that he also felt confident because all three members were socially very active with the employees as well as the management.
Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 and currently has 4,762 employees working in Ethiopia alone.
© 2006 Addis Fortune.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Ethiopia: Girma Advises Against 'Tit-for-Tat' On Kenyan Ban
Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
October 31, 2006
Posted to the web October 31, 2006
Issayas Mekuria
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines, Girma Wake, gave two pieces of advice to the Ethiopian authorities and members of the media during a press conference at the Sheraton on Saturday, October 28.
"Two wrongs do not make a right," answered Girma, when asked whether he wants retaliation by the Ethiopian government to what their counterparts have done in banning his airline from flying from Nairobi to African destinations such as Entebbe (Uganda), Kigali (Rwanda) and Bujumbura (Burundi).
A bilateral agreement entered between Ethiopia and Kenya, and regional trade pact among all Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states require them to open their skies to airlines of each other countries. Ethiopian had for years picked up passengers from Nairobi and flown them to destinations of these East African nations. Nevertheless, three weeks ago, the Kenyan Ministry of Transport prohibited Ethiopia's flagship airline from flying anywhere else in Africa but Addis Abeba.
Kenyan officials were reciprocating for an Ethiopian ban on Kenyan Airways taking its passengers from Addis Abeba to Dubai and Jeddah.
"As far as I am concerned, these places are out of Africa," Girma told reporters, cautioning them not to "play this up out of proportion".
"We are not at war with the Kenyan Airways. Neither are our countries. It is only that the Kenyan authorities were misled by someone in the competition," Girma said.
He told reporters that Kenyan Airways is operating a flight from Addis to Djibouti, while his management has reserved from advising Ethiopian authorities to deny permits when they have applied for another destination from Addis Abeba. Recalling how Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa were the African nations that were pushing for more liberalized airline transport in Africa, Girma said he believes "the move will hurt Kenya more than anyone else."
Girma said he had talked to the Kenyan authorities following the ban and they did admit their mistakes.
"They said that they would reply in 10 days," Girma told reporters. "But, it's been three weeks now. I have still not heard anything from them."
Whether or not they respond or lift the ban, Girma said he is not interested to replay in kind.
"We oppose their decision not so much because we depend on the flight traffics going from Nairobi to these countries, but because principles need to be upheld," Girma said. "And we will under no circumstances stop Kenyan from flying to Djibouti or other African destinations from Addis Abeba."
He said African airlines who close their doors on others cannot ask others to open theirs. Although Girma believes that this was hardly a war between the two airlines or countries, he looked forward to the situation being eased.
October 31, 2006
Posted to the web October 31, 2006
Issayas Mekuria
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines, Girma Wake, gave two pieces of advice to the Ethiopian authorities and members of the media during a press conference at the Sheraton on Saturday, October 28.
"Two wrongs do not make a right," answered Girma, when asked whether he wants retaliation by the Ethiopian government to what their counterparts have done in banning his airline from flying from Nairobi to African destinations such as Entebbe (Uganda), Kigali (Rwanda) and Bujumbura (Burundi).
A bilateral agreement entered between Ethiopia and Kenya, and regional trade pact among all Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states require them to open their skies to airlines of each other countries. Ethiopian had for years picked up passengers from Nairobi and flown them to destinations of these East African nations. Nevertheless, three weeks ago, the Kenyan Ministry of Transport prohibited Ethiopia's flagship airline from flying anywhere else in Africa but Addis Abeba.
Kenyan officials were reciprocating for an Ethiopian ban on Kenyan Airways taking its passengers from Addis Abeba to Dubai and Jeddah.
"As far as I am concerned, these places are out of Africa," Girma told reporters, cautioning them not to "play this up out of proportion".
"We are not at war with the Kenyan Airways. Neither are our countries. It is only that the Kenyan authorities were misled by someone in the competition," Girma said.
He told reporters that Kenyan Airways is operating a flight from Addis to Djibouti, while his management has reserved from advising Ethiopian authorities to deny permits when they have applied for another destination from Addis Abeba. Recalling how Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa were the African nations that were pushing for more liberalized airline transport in Africa, Girma said he believes "the move will hurt Kenya more than anyone else."
Girma said he had talked to the Kenyan authorities following the ban and they did admit their mistakes.
"They said that they would reply in 10 days," Girma told reporters. "But, it's been three weeks now. I have still not heard anything from them."
Whether or not they respond or lift the ban, Girma said he is not interested to replay in kind.
"We oppose their decision not so much because we depend on the flight traffics going from Nairobi to these countries, but because principles need to be upheld," Girma said. "And we will under no circumstances stop Kenyan from flying to Djibouti or other African destinations from Addis Abeba."
He said African airlines who close their doors on others cannot ask others to open theirs. Although Girma believes that this was hardly a war between the two airlines or countries, he looked forward to the situation being eased.
Ethiopia: Girma Advises Against 'Tit-for-Tat' On Kenyan Ban
Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
October 31, 2006
Posted to the web October 31, 2006
Issayas Mekuria
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines, Girma Wake, gave two pieces of advice to the Ethiopian authorities and members of the media during a press conference at the Sheraton on Saturday, October 28.
"Two wrongs do not make a right," answered Girma, when asked whether he wants retaliation by the Ethiopian government to what their counterparts have done in banning his airline from flying from Nairobi to African destinations such as Entebbe (Uganda), Kigali (Rwanda) and Bujumbura (Burundi).
A bilateral agreement entered between Ethiopia and Kenya, and regional trade pact among all Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states require them to open their skies to airlines of each other countries. Ethiopian had for years picked up passengers from Nairobi and flown them to destinations of these East African nations. Nevertheless, three weeks ago, the Kenyan Ministry of Transport prohibited Ethiopia's flagship airline from flying anywhere else in Africa but Addis Abeba.
Kenyan officials were reciprocating for an Ethiopian ban on Kenyan Airways taking its passengers from Addis Abeba to Dubai and Jeddah.
"As far as I am concerned, these places are out of Africa," Girma told reporters, cautioning them not to "play this up out of proportion".
"We are not at war with the Kenyan Airways. Neither are our countries. It is only that the Kenyan authorities were misled by someone in the competition," Girma said.
He told reporters that Kenyan Airways is operating a flight from Addis to Djibouti, while his management has reserved from advising Ethiopian authorities to deny permits when they have applied for another destination from Addis Abeba. Recalling how Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa were the African nations that were pushing for more liberalized airline transport in Africa, Girma said he believes "the move will hurt Kenya more than anyone else."
Girma said he had talked to the Kenyan authorities following the ban and they did admit their mistakes.
"They said that they would reply in 10 days," Girma told reporters. "But, it's been three weeks now. I have still not heard anything from them."
Whether or not they respond or lift the ban, Girma said he is not interested to replay in kind.
"We oppose their decision not so much because we depend on the flight traffics going from Nairobi to these countries, but because principles need to be upheld," Girma said. "And we will under no circumstances stop Kenyan from flying to Djibouti or other African destinations from Addis Abeba."
He said African airlines who close their doors on others cannot ask others to open theirs. Although Girma believes that this was hardly a war between the two airlines or countries, he looked forward to the situation being eased.
October 31, 2006
Posted to the web October 31, 2006
Issayas Mekuria
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines, Girma Wake, gave two pieces of advice to the Ethiopian authorities and members of the media during a press conference at the Sheraton on Saturday, October 28.
"Two wrongs do not make a right," answered Girma, when asked whether he wants retaliation by the Ethiopian government to what their counterparts have done in banning his airline from flying from Nairobi to African destinations such as Entebbe (Uganda), Kigali (Rwanda) and Bujumbura (Burundi).
A bilateral agreement entered between Ethiopia and Kenya, and regional trade pact among all Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states require them to open their skies to airlines of each other countries. Ethiopian had for years picked up passengers from Nairobi and flown them to destinations of these East African nations. Nevertheless, three weeks ago, the Kenyan Ministry of Transport prohibited Ethiopia's flagship airline from flying anywhere else in Africa but Addis Abeba.
Kenyan officials were reciprocating for an Ethiopian ban on Kenyan Airways taking its passengers from Addis Abeba to Dubai and Jeddah.
"As far as I am concerned, these places are out of Africa," Girma told reporters, cautioning them not to "play this up out of proportion".
"We are not at war with the Kenyan Airways. Neither are our countries. It is only that the Kenyan authorities were misled by someone in the competition," Girma said.
He told reporters that Kenyan Airways is operating a flight from Addis to Djibouti, while his management has reserved from advising Ethiopian authorities to deny permits when they have applied for another destination from Addis Abeba. Recalling how Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa were the African nations that were pushing for more liberalized airline transport in Africa, Girma said he believes "the move will hurt Kenya more than anyone else."
Girma said he had talked to the Kenyan authorities following the ban and they did admit their mistakes.
"They said that they would reply in 10 days," Girma told reporters. "But, it's been three weeks now. I have still not heard anything from them."
Whether or not they respond or lift the ban, Girma said he is not interested to replay in kind.
"We oppose their decision not so much because we depend on the flight traffics going from Nairobi to these countries, but because principles need to be upheld," Girma said. "And we will under no circumstances stop Kenyan from flying to Djibouti or other African destinations from Addis Abeba."
He said African airlines who close their doors on others cannot ask others to open theirs. Although Girma believes that this was hardly a war between the two airlines or countries, he looked forward to the situation being eased.
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Air Wins Award
Kampala)
October 31, 2006
Posted to the web November 1, 2006
Vision Reporter
Kampala
Ethiopian Airlines has been voted the "African Airline of the year 2006" by African Aviation Journal.
The carrier was chosen for its financial performance and overall profitability, passenger growth, route network expansion, fleet modernization, in-flight services, and overall customer care.
The award plaque was handed over to Ethiopian Airlines' chief executive officer, Girma Wake by Her Excellency Susan Mcdernoff, the deputy assistant secretary for aviation & international affairs at the African Aviation's 15th annual air finance for Africa conference in Cape Town, South Africa recently.
The African Aviation Awards were introduced by Aviation Journal in 1999 in order to give international recognition to those individuals, companies, and organizations that have made significant contributions to Aviation development in Africa.
It is a special privilege for Ethiopian Airlines to have been awarded African Airline of the Year 2006. The award inspires the Airline to enhance its commitment to provide excellent quality services to its esteemed customers.
Since its inception on December 5, 1945, Ethiopian Airlines has steadily grown to become a reputable African airline with an unparalleled coverage of Africa to the Middle East, Asia, Europe and America. Right from the beginning Ethiopian Airlines has been pursuing its goal of bringing Africa Together and closer to the world. As a result today it is operating the largest network in the African continent both in passengers and cargo services. Ethiopian Airlines continuously strives to live up to its motto of being Africa's World Class Airline that provides seamless connections to 47 destinations spread around the globe including 28 in Africa via its Addis Ababa hub. Effective 26th October, Ethiopian Airlines has made significant capacity increase to the West African destinations mainly to: Lagos, Accra, Bamako, Dakar and Djamena with immediate connections via Addis Ababa Airport.
October 31, 2006
Posted to the web November 1, 2006
Vision Reporter
Kampala
Ethiopian Airlines has been voted the "African Airline of the year 2006" by African Aviation Journal.
The carrier was chosen for its financial performance and overall profitability, passenger growth, route network expansion, fleet modernization, in-flight services, and overall customer care.
The award plaque was handed over to Ethiopian Airlines' chief executive officer, Girma Wake by Her Excellency Susan Mcdernoff, the deputy assistant secretary for aviation & international affairs at the African Aviation's 15th annual air finance for Africa conference in Cape Town, South Africa recently.
The African Aviation Awards were introduced by Aviation Journal in 1999 in order to give international recognition to those individuals, companies, and organizations that have made significant contributions to Aviation development in Africa.
It is a special privilege for Ethiopian Airlines to have been awarded African Airline of the Year 2006. The award inspires the Airline to enhance its commitment to provide excellent quality services to its esteemed customers.
Since its inception on December 5, 1945, Ethiopian Airlines has steadily grown to become a reputable African airline with an unparalleled coverage of Africa to the Middle East, Asia, Europe and America. Right from the beginning Ethiopian Airlines has been pursuing its goal of bringing Africa Together and closer to the world. As a result today it is operating the largest network in the African continent both in passengers and cargo services. Ethiopian Airlines continuously strives to live up to its motto of being Africa's World Class Airline that provides seamless connections to 47 destinations spread around the globe including 28 in Africa via its Addis Ababa hub. Effective 26th October, Ethiopian Airlines has made significant capacity increase to the West African destinations mainly to: Lagos, Accra, Bamako, Dakar and Djamena with immediate connections via Addis Ababa Airport.
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