ADDIS ABABA-The Ethiopian Airline has been growing very fast in a short period of time, this largest Airline’s in the continent of Africa traffic also grew by 10 percent from the past year in the month of the accident had happened, Disclosed the Airline.
In 2010, we introduced our Vision 2025 where we had a 15-year strategy for the airline. At that time, the airline was very small, number four in Africa, and nobody believed that we would achieve those numbers that we put in our Vision 2025. Some media said it cannot be achieved from an African airline operating in one of the most challenging operating environments. That finance would be an issue, resources would be an issue, pilots, technicians, and other, The Airline CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said in an interview with for Houston Chronicle Media Group.
“We aimed for 90 international destinations and 120 airplanes by 2025. By 2018, seven years ahead of the scheduled achievement period, we had already crossed 120 destinations. And the airplanes are already 130. So it was really a remarkable success,” he noted.
He also spoke relating to the accident that happened in Ethiopia, The global brand of the airline is amazingly strong, especially in the continent of Africa. So people knew right from Day one that this accident doesn’t belong to Ethiopian. It’s just a matter of bad luck that the accident happened to be with the airline, but it had nothing to do with the airline.
He said “We had the accident on March 10, but in the month of March itself our traffic grew by 10 percent as compared to the previous year. When we closed our financial year by June 2019, traffic grew by 17 percent”. Added, this shows that people and the traveling public have strong confidence in the brand of the airline. It has not seen any booking cancellations or people doubting to travel on Ethiopian Airlines.
The Ethiopian Herald Sunday Edition, December 22/2019
BY GENET FEKADE
