ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES OPENS UP NEW ROUTE INTO FRANCE
(Posted 03rd July 2019)
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, commenced thrice weekly flights to Marseille in France. The new service was inaugurated at a colorful event held in the VIP Salon at Addis Ababa International Airport in the presence of H. E. Mr. Frédéric Bontems, French Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia and Mr Tewolde GebreMariam, Ethiopian Group CEO, both of whom were onboard the inaugural flight.
Members of the diplomatic community in Addis Ababa together with other invited guests graced the event too.
A cake cutting and champagne toast ceremony was held to mark the event.
Marseille, France’s second largest city, is the second destination in France and Ethiopian Airlines’ 20th destination in Europe. With the new flight, Ethiopian now operates over 60 passenger flights to European cities every week.
The airline has been flying to Paris since 1971 connecting Africa to the French capital for nearly five decades thereby facilitating trade, investment, tourism and people to-people ties.
Currently, Ethiopian flies to more than 120 international destinations across five continents with young fleet.
The airline presently also flies five times a day between Addis Ababa and Entebbe in Uganda, with one flight routing via Juba and one flight routing on to Goma in Eastern Congo.
