Ethiopian Airlines Gets 200-Seater Plane
The Monitor (Kampala)
October 20, 2006
Posted to the web October 20, 2006
Dorothy Nakaweesi
Kampala
IN its endeavour to match the increasing number of passengers, Ethiopian Airlines has signed an agreement with Atlasjet Airlines based in Turkey to lease B757-200 aircraft.
The six-months lease is on ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) basis although Ethiopian Airlines cabin crew will provide cabin service.
The deal was effected on September 13, according to the Ethiopian Airlines newsletter. It said the B757-200 with registration number TC-OGT was manufactured in July 2000.
This 200-seater all economy aircraft will operate mainly in the Accra, Harare, Lusaka, Lilongwe, Kinshasa, Brazzaville, and Johannesburg routes.
Ethiopia Airlines provides seamless connections to 47 destinations spread around the globe including 28 in Africa via its Addis Ababa hub.
Entebbe is one of its destinations, which also include Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Amsterdam, Bahar Dar, Bamako, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Brazzaville and Brussels, Bujumbura and Cairo among others.
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Friday, October 20, 2006
Africa: States Shun Aviation Agreements
Nairobi
Refusal by some African governments to honour air traffic agreements is restricting growth of aviation around the continent.
Kenya Airways commercial director Hugh Fraser said the airline was forced to revise its expansion programme on three occasions, because the agreements are not streamlined.
"There are three routes we have sought to open or add frequencies this year and for a variety of reasons, we have not been able to launch the services," he said.
It was not exactly clear which route he was referring to. However, the airline was recently forced to delay the launch of a route to Congo Brazzaville and Cotonou in Benin, citing delays in reaching agreement with authorities in Congo.
Mr Fraser was speaking at a two-day East African African Aviation seminar at the Panari hotel in Nairobi on Tuesday evening. The meeting ended on Wednesday.
Aviation in Africa is governed by, among other agreements, the Yamoussoukro declaration, which advocates for an open skies policy between various African countries allowing for free movement of African carriers within member states.
According to a recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) paper on aviation in Africa, up to 50 non-physical barriers limit access to quality and competitive air transport on the continent. This has kept the cost of air travel high, as the absence of co-operation between airlines and air space regulators dims competition.
Kenya Airways, South African Airways, Ethiopian Airlines and Air Mauritius are among the few healthy airlines in sub-Saharan Africa that are not plagued by government interference in their operations.
Unlike the northern Africa region where the airlines are heavily dependent on European tourists, successful sub-Saharan carriers rely on bilateral air traffic agreements and aggressive route expansion to grow their revenues.
However, Mr Fraser said it was becoming difficult to win and exploit air traffic rights on the continent, on the strength of bilateral air agreements.
"Most countries still want to do business on a country by country basis, and not have somebody else determine to them how they should do business, and how they should supposedly open up their sky," he said.
While noting that Kenya Airways sympathised with this view, Mr Fraser noted that it was in the interest of Kenya Airways and other large airlines to form aviation partnerships in Africa.
Refusal by some African governments to honour air traffic agreements is restricting growth of aviation around the continent.
Kenya Airways commercial director Hugh Fraser said the airline was forced to revise its expansion programme on three occasions, because the agreements are not streamlined.
"There are three routes we have sought to open or add frequencies this year and for a variety of reasons, we have not been able to launch the services," he said.
It was not exactly clear which route he was referring to. However, the airline was recently forced to delay the launch of a route to Congo Brazzaville and Cotonou in Benin, citing delays in reaching agreement with authorities in Congo.
Mr Fraser was speaking at a two-day East African African Aviation seminar at the Panari hotel in Nairobi on Tuesday evening. The meeting ended on Wednesday.
Aviation in Africa is governed by, among other agreements, the Yamoussoukro declaration, which advocates for an open skies policy between various African countries allowing for free movement of African carriers within member states.
According to a recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) paper on aviation in Africa, up to 50 non-physical barriers limit access to quality and competitive air transport on the continent. This has kept the cost of air travel high, as the absence of co-operation between airlines and air space regulators dims competition.
Kenya Airways, South African Airways, Ethiopian Airlines and Air Mauritius are among the few healthy airlines in sub-Saharan Africa that are not plagued by government interference in their operations.
Unlike the northern Africa region where the airlines are heavily dependent on European tourists, successful sub-Saharan carriers rely on bilateral air traffic agreements and aggressive route expansion to grow their revenues.
However, Mr Fraser said it was becoming difficult to win and exploit air traffic rights on the continent, on the strength of bilateral air agreements.
"Most countries still want to do business on a country by country basis, and not have somebody else determine to them how they should do business, and how they should supposedly open up their sky," he said.
While noting that Kenya Airways sympathised with this view, Mr Fraser noted that it was in the interest of Kenya Airways and other large airlines to form aviation partnerships in Africa.
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