reopening of the airport on Wednesday.
The Airline’s
Traffic and Sales Manager, Mrs. Firiehiwot Mekonnen, made this known, on
Monday, in Abuja.
Mekonnen said
that the aircraft would land in Abuja on its first day of operation from Addis
Ababa and that it would remain on Abuja route.
The airline
launched its first A350-900 Airbus on the London Heathrow route August last
year. It has three of the plane in its fleet and awaits the delivery of nine
more before 2019.
She said that
the decision to celebrate the inaugural flight to Abuja was because of the
airline’s commitment to the Nigerian market.
According to
the manager, the 313-passenger capacity aircraft is expected to land at 11.15
am to be the first aircraft to land at the newly rehabilitated Abuja runway.
“The
Ethiopian’s brand new Airbus A350-900 is landing in Abuja airport tomorrow
(Tuesday) as the first aircraft to land on the newly rehabilitated runway and
first airbus to land in Abuja.
“From now on,
we are going to operate Airbus on Abuja route,’’ she said.
When Abuja
Airport was closed on March 8 for repairs on its runway and flight operations
were diverted to Kaduna International Airport, Ethiopian Airlines was the first
to land its new Boeing 787 in Kaduna.
The airline,
being the only international carrier that agreed to operate at Kaduna, had
maintained consistent operation at the airport in the last six weeks.
Governor Nasir
el-Rufai of Kaduna State had also requested that the airline maintained its
Kaduna operation even after the reopening of Abuja airport.
Mokennen said
that the airline “is seriously considering the governor’s request”. (NAN)
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