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Ethiopian Airlines launches direct Istanbul flight

March 19, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, is pleased to announce that it has finalized all preparations to launch a direct thrice weekly flight to Istanbul, Turkey as of April 1, 2019.

Istanbul is Turkey’s historic, industrial and financial capital.

The flight to Istanbul will be dispatched as per the schedule below:

Flight

Number Frequency Departure

Airport Departure time Arrival Airport Arrival

Time Sub fleet

ET 0720 MON, WED, FRI ADD 23:05 IST 4:35 ET 738
ET 0721 WED,FRI,SUN IST 1:10 ADD 6:40 ET 738

Regarding the upcoming services, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, remarked, “It gives us great pleasure to launch flights to Istanbul, connecting Europe’s largest city to the over 60 African destinations we serve, through our hub Addis Ababa. Turkey being one of the fastest growing countries among the emerging economies, availability of seamless connectivity options will facilitate the channeling of investors and enhance business ties between the two regions.

As we forge ahead on the path of growth and success as envisioned in Vision 2025, we will keep opening new routes to all corners of the world bringing Africa ever closer to the rest of the world.”

Istanbul marks Ethiopian’s 19th destination in Europe. Ethiopian is currently serving 119 international destinations across five continents with young aircraft with average fleet age of five years. It will also bring the number of passenger flights the airline operates to European cities to 57 per week.

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