Ethiopian Airlines commence flights to New York-Newark

Ethiopian Airline 

Ethiopian Airlines announced that it has commenced scheduled thrice weekly flights to New York-Newark from Addis Ababa on July 3, 2016 via Lomé, Togo. Ethiopian deployed the modern Boeing 787 Dreamliner on this route. Boeing 787 Dreamliner is configured with 24 business class and 246 economy seats.

This new service will enable passengers’ to connect between New York-Newark and many cities throughout Africa. At Lomé, passengers can enjoy connections to/from points in West Africa with ASKY, Ethiopian partner airline based in Lomé. Connections are available to/from Abidjan, Bamako, Bissau, Brazzaville, Conakry, Dakar, Douala, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, N’djamena, Niamey, Ouagadougou and Yaoundé. 

At Addis Ababa, passengers will be enjoying connections to/from points in East and Southern Africa, including Nairobi, Dares Salaam, Khartoum, Kampala, Kigali, and Johannesburg. 

Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO, Ethiopian Airlines, remarked, “We are thrilled to resume our service to New York, our fifth gateway in the Americas. New York is one of the world's most economically powerful cities and including it in our ever expanding network will play a critical role in the expansion of trade, tourism and investment between the fast growing continent of Africa and the United States. I would like to thank all who strived hard to make the route possible.”

New York-Newark is Ethiopian’s 93rd international gateway and 4th gateway in North America. Ethiopian currently operates daily nonstop flights from Washington DC to Addis Ababa, as well as three weekly nonstop flights from Toronto to Addis Ababa and three weekly flights from Los Angeles to Addis Ababa via Dublin. In the past year it also introduced services to Tokyo, Manila, Dublin, Los Angeles, Cape Town, Durban, Gaborone, Yaoundé, and Goma. Read more ...