[Courtesy]Ethiopian Airlines is accelerating its strategy of weaving a patchwork of new African routes to soak up traffic on the continent and fly customers towards its more lucrative flights to rapidly expanding Asian markets. He also said in May the airline was looking to set up carriers in Equatorial Guinea and Guinea through joint ventures. Ethiopian is hoping to snare a greater share of capacity on flights between cities in Africa, which are already 90-percent controlled by African carriers, according to data firm OAG. Yamlaksira Getachew, a management professor at Loyola Marymount University, warned Zambia’s relaunched flag carrier could steal traffic from Ethiopian’s existing southern African hub in neighboring Malawi. To try to revive the stalled process, 23 African governments signed another deal this year to forge a single aviation market.

Source: Ethiopian News November 23, 2018 10:09 UTC