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Ethiopian Airlines wants to have a hub in every region
The institution has grown its student body from 200 to 1,000 trainees, including pilots, technicians, cabin crew and marketing and finance personnel. Henok advised, “…. going forward, we aim to invest even more to enable it to have a 4,000 annual intake capacity by 2025, the aim being half of the students being non-Ethiopian Airlines and especially African students because there is a huge demand for aviation skills training in Africa.”
A major cargo operator, Ethiopian is investing in new cargo planes. The airline covers 48 cargo routes, with six dedicated aircraft. “By 2025, we’ll have at least 18 aircraft,” says Henok, who points to the additional infrastructure work being done. He then added, “We are building one of the biggest cargo terminals in the world, with a 1.2 million ton annual capacity; 600,000 tons in the first phase, 600,000 tons in the second phase. It has both dry and perishable storage facilities and, when finished, the perishable facility cold storage will be one of the biggest in the world, even bigger than the Schiphol Amsterdam airport facility.”
Source: The Africa Report
