Not only is Ethiopian well-managed, but in my experience its inflight product is consistently quite good.
Bob Distler From: Jack Keady via Mifnet <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2026 15:36 To: David Wardell via Mifnet <[email protected]> Cc: Jack Keady <[email protected]> Subject: [Mifnet 🛰 75109] Re: Fw: Africa's First Mega-Hub: Ethiopian Airlines' $12.5 Billion Airport To Open In 2030 Note - i love and respect Ethiopia. It's just that $12 billion is a big chunk of money. Let's see where this goes.... On Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 09:23:20 AM PST, Chris Lyle via Mifnet <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Ethiopian Airlines, largely left alone by its various autocratic governments, is now the largest airline in Africa bar none, with mini-hubs in a few African cities other than Addis Ababa (thereby breaking down some of the African resistance to liberalization). ADD is getting very congested - when I travelled from Toronto to Entebbe a few years ago, I did not even enter the terminal, was bussed directly from one aircraft to another! Plus it is "hot and high" - the new airport is further out of town but quite a bit lower. There are political issues regarding its location, but my long time friend Semret Medhane, a former CEO of ET, was invited to the launch ceremony last week and is all gung ho. Chris Lyle On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM Jack Keady via Mifnet <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: seems like a big expensive project for a poor country. Good luck to them. keady Sent: Monday, January 12, 2026 at 01:36:16 AM PST Subject: Africa's First Mega-Hub: Ethiopian Airlines' $12.5 Billion Airport To Open In 2030 <https://static0.simpleflyingimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/855-ethiopian-airlines-airbus-a350-photosounds-_-shutterstock-simple-flying.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop> simpleflying.com <http://simpleflying.com> Africa's First Mega-Hub: Ethiopian Airlines' $12.5 Billion Airport To Open In 2030 When complete, the new airport will handle over four times (over 100 million passengers per year) the current capacity of Addis Ababa Airport. <https://simpleflying.com/africas-first-mega-hub-ethiopian-12-billion-airport-open-2030/> 🔗 https://simpleflying.com/africas-first-mega-hub-ethiopian-12-billion-airport-open-2030/
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