KADUNA BY B787 DREAMLINER – ONLY WITH ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES
(Posted 10th March 2017)
Ethiopian Airlines yesterday commenced their new daily flights to the Nigerian city of Kaduna, using a Boeing B787 Dreamliner on the route. This makes Ethiopia’s national airline the only foreign carrier to offer flights to and from Kaduna, giving them pole position to tap into the region’s traffic potential.
Ethiopian is also the only foreign airline serving four Nigerian cities, besides Kaduna also Lagos, Kano and Enugu.
Said Ethiopian Group CEO Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam on the occasion: ‘Our daily services to Kaduna airport, with B-787 Dreamliner, allowing passengers to experience the ultimate on-board comfort, is the only international air transport service linking the capital Abuja with the rest of the world. We are happy to stand together with our Nigerian brothers and sisters once again in good and challenging times. Ethiopian Airlines is a pioneer Pan-African carrier which serves as a catalyst in African integration for the African union. Seventy years serving the continent of Africa, we are still very strong in our motto, Bringing Africa together and closer to the world. We now proudly serve Nigeria in its four cities: Kaduna and Lagos- daily each, Kano twice weekly and Enugu thrice weekly. And as a result, we are proud to see Nigerians enjoying seamless connections to the rest of the world via Ethiopian for their travels of business and other purposes‘.
