Ethiopian to launch flights to New York-Newark

Africa’s biggest airline, Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it would commence scheduled thrice weekly flights to New York-Newark from Addis Ababa from July 3rd 2016, via Lomé, Togo.

The carrier will be deploying Boeing 787 Dreamliner on this route, which not only offers unparalleled onboard comfort to passengers, but is also the world’s most environmentally friendly aircraft with its lower carbon and noise emissions.

Ethiopian’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner is configured with 24 business class and 246 economy seats, all of which are equipped with Ethiopian’s renowned audio-visual inflight entertainment consoles.

Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, said passengers will be able to connect between New York-Newark and many cities throughout Africa, adding that at Lomé, passengers would enjoy seamless connections to/from points in West Africa with ASKY, Ethiopian partner airline based in Lomé.

He stated that connections will be available to/from Abidjan, Bamako, Bissau, Brazzaville, Conakry, Dakar, Douala, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, N’djamena, Niamey, Ouagadougou and Yaoundé. At Addis Ababa, passengers will enjoy seamless connections to/from points in East and

According to GebreMariam,“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 becomes 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.