“Bole Airport is not going to accommodate us; we have a beautiful expansion project. The airport looks beautiful and large but with the way we are growing, in about three or four years we are going to be full,” Tewolde said. Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa has a passenger capacity of 19 million annually. Tewolde noted the price tag of the new airport was higher than the $4 billion cost of building the still-to-be-completed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile, with projected passenger numbers topping those at Dubai’s international airport. He did not give details of construction funding or who would build the new airport.

Source: Ethiopian News January 16, 2020 11:03 UTC