News Nairobi now says no to Ethiopian Airlines extra route requestAn Ethiopian Airlines plane at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. PHOTO | AFPThe Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has denied Ethiopian Airlines (ET) a licence to operate scheduled passenger flights on the Johannesburg-Nairobi–Brussels route, saving Kenya Airways from an imminent battle for passengers in the African airspace. Ethiopian Airlines wanted to fly B757 aircraft on the new route if allowed to operate out of Nairobi. KCAA's decision to deny Ethiopian Airlines a licence to operate on the Johannesburg-Nairobi–Brussels route comes five years after it declined to let the carrier operate cargo planes on the Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Johannesburg route. In 2013 the Ethiopian carrier acquired a minority stake in Malawi Airlines as part of the plan to make Blantyre a base for its southern Africa operations.

Source: Ethiopian News December 03, 2018 06:33 UTC