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Ethiopian considers A350 good fit for Asia flights
June 23rd 2017
Ethiopian Airlines this week placed a top-up order for 10 additional A350-900s, adding to an existing order for 12 XWBs of which six have been delivered. Read More »
“We have been a loyal Boeing customer for a very long time, because we were looking for the right aircraft in the Airbus family. Now we have found the A350 to be the right aircraft for us. We are very happy we made that decision very early in the A350 program. Now we see the performance of the aircraft is up to expectations, we made the right decision,” said Ethiopian CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam.
The Ethiopian airline chief said the first batch of A350s was mostly deployed on flights to London and Beijing but additional aircraft would be deployed to Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul. “We certainly want to put these on an A350 because the loads are very high,” Gebremariam said.
