Africa’s biggest and most successful carrier, Ethiopia airlines has been honoured with Excellence Award in recognition of the excellent service and successful operations.
At a ceremony in Lagos attended by Business leaders in Lagos Ethiopian Airlines was given the award because of its outstanding contribution to the development of the Continent, the economic aspirations of its citizenry and transformation of Africa’s image in the international Market place. The award organised by African Institute for Leadership Excellence is organised Annually, Dr. Stanley Ohemhen the Chairman of the General Committee of the institute had outlined the values that qualified Ethiopian Airlines for the Award.
The Award was received on Behalf of Ethiopian Airlines by Mrs. Firihiewot Mekonnen the General Manager of The Airline in Nigeria. Mrs. Mekonnen Who is the new manager in Lagos thanked the Organisers for the Award. In her speech she told the packed hall that Ethiopian is the new Spirit of Africa and has been defending the interest of Africa since inception over 70 years ago. Ethiopian Airlines will be organising an All women Operated Flight on March 8 to Buenos Aires Argentina to Mark Women’s day with a moto of inspiring ” the African girl”. She invited the Audience to fly Ethiopian Airlines as Airline of Choice. Giving her reasons she said “Ethiopian Airlines the only Skytrax 4 star Airline in Africa is now flying to 5 destination in Nigeria, Lagos, Abuja, Kano , Kaduna and Enugu. Ethiopian uplifted the largest Number of international passengers out of Nigeria in 2017 as per the Analysis done by NCAA. This is history that an African Airline carried the highest Number of Passengers in Another African Country. Even when you look at the figures released by NCAA Non African Airlines carried majority of the Passengers. We are happy that we were able to defend Africa. That’s why we seek Partnership with other African countries to strengthen their capacity to thrive like we are doing with ASKY in Togo, also in Malawi, Zambia and now Guinea.”
Ethiopian connects Nigerians to the world by flying to more than 100 international destinations with the most modern and youngest Boeing fleet of B787 Dreamliner,B777 and Airbus A350. Ethiopian as part of its Vision 2025 strategy is opening more international routes and just within the coming 6 months ET will inaugurate 10 new destination Like to Chicago, Geneva – Switzerland , Buenos Aires- Argentina , Nosy Be – Madagascar , Kisangani DRC.
