Ethiopian is Africa’s greatest airline. This is what a full day of its intra-African operations appears like.
As of January twenty seventh, Ethiopian Airways has as much as 68 worldwide passenger flights departing from its Addis Ababa (ADD) hub throughout Africa on specific days this summer time, though the typical is 64 each day. By no means has it had as many as 68, in keeping with OAG knowledge. Its record-breaking quantity has been helped by the Star Alliance member boosting flights on a number of routes and de-linking specific African cities. To know its operation, right here is its full-day worldwide intra-Africa schedule based mostly on randomly chosen July twenty first, 2023.
July twenty first: midnight to 07:59
The easiest way of fascinated by these 4 flights is that they’re successfully, if not really, the final of the departures throughout Africa from the day earlier than. They match into that departure financial institution. They’re all comparatively near Addis and arrive again in ADD at 04:45-07:30, primarily enabling passengers to attach elsewhere in Africa and to the Center East and China.
- 00:10: ET827, Dar es Salaam; 737-800
- 01:00: ET366, Djibouti; 737-700
- 01:00: ET316, Asmara; 737-700
- 01:10: ET343, Khartoum; 737-800
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July twenty first: busiest interval, half one
Fed by flights from throughout North America, Europe, Center East, Asia, and different components of Africa, 08:00-11:30 is Ethiopian Airways’ major intra-Africa departure financial institution of the day. It has 45 departures or over two-thirds of its complete. Over half (56%) are by widebodies, such is the passenger and freight demand presently. It’s also a great way of accelerating the utilization of widebodies in-between long-haul intercontinental companies, particularly for the newer sorts.
To make it extra digestible, I’ve damaged them into two components: 08:00-09:15 and 09:16-11:30. This is the primary:
- 08:00: ET318, Nairobi; 737 MAX 8
- 08:30: ET829, Victoria Falls (continues to Bulawayo); 737 MAX 8
- 08:30: ET332, Entebbe; 737 MAX 8
- 08:35: ET835, Windhoek; 787-9
- 08:35: ET835, Gaborone; 737 MAX 8
- 08:40: ET809, Johannesburg; A350-900
- 08:40: ET931, Enugu; 737 MAX 8
- 08:40: ET917, Cotonou; 737 MAX 8
- 08:40: ET921, Accra; A350-900
- 08:45: ET508, Lomé (continues to Newark); 787-8
- 08:45: ET861, Brazzaville (continues to Pointe-Noire); 787-8
- 08:50: ET853, Antananarivo; 777-200LR
- 08:55: ET819, Maputo; 787-9
- 08:55: ET376, Mogadishu; 737-800
- 08:55: ET352, Juba; 737-700
- 09:00: ET322, Mombasa; 737-800
- 09:00: ET901, Lagos; 777-300ER
- 09:00: ET925, Libreville (continues to Yaoundé); 787-9
- 09:00: ET913, Douala (continues to Malabo); 787-8
- 09:00: ET847, Cape City; A350-900
- 09:05: ET875, Ndola (continues to Blantyre); 737 MAX 8
- 09:15: ET368, Garowe (continues to Bosaso); Sprint-8-Q400
July twenty first: busiest interval, half two
Most flights that go away 08:00-11:30 arrive again in Addis Ababa within the late night, feeding companies going to North America, Europe, Center East, Asia, and different components of Africa. Nonetheless, the longest to West Africa (e.g., to Bamako and onto Dakar), proven on this ‘half two,’ stay in a single day to return the subsequent day to feed the crucial intercontinental flights. In distinction, the shorter routes return within the afternoon, serving to to beef up Ethiopian Airways’ creating third wave.
This is the second a part of the busiest interval:
- 09:20: ET951, Abuja; A350-900
- 09:25: ET863, Lusaka; A350-900
- 09:25: ET873, Harare; A350-900
- 09:30: ET879, Seychelles; 737 MAX 8
- 09:30: ET362, Djibouti; 737-700
- 09:30: ET372, Hargeisa; 737-800
- 09:40: ET851, Luanda; 777-200LR
- 09:45: ET344, Khartoum; 737-800
- 09:50: ET877, Lilongwe; 787-8
- 09:50: ET312, Asmara; 737-800
- 10:00: ET825, Moroni; A350-900
- 10:00: ET841, Kinshasa; A350-900
- 10:05: ET939; N’Djamena; MAX 8
- 10:20: ET813, Zanzibar; A350-900
- 10:30: ET937, Niamey (continues to Ouagadougou); 787-8
- 10:35: ET815, Kilimanjaro; A350-900
- 10:35: ET935, Abidjan (continues to Conakry; 787-8
- 10:40: ET909, Bamako (continues to Dakar); 787-9
- 10:45: ET831, Goma; 737-700
- 10:45: ET805, Dar es Salaam; 737 MAX 8
- 10:50: ET871, Lubumbashi; 777-200LR
- 11:30: ET807, Kigali; 737-800
- 11:30: ET811, Bujumbura; 737 MAX 8
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12:00 to 23:59
A lot of the remaining 11h 59m of the day could be very quiet, with no departures between 17:01 and 21:34. As you’ll be able to see, the mid-afternoon third wave is rising in significance; it will be a lot busier in a couple of years. A lot of the flights (besides Johannesburg) return within the mid-evening, thereby feeding onward intercontinental flights. The night departures are fed by arrivals from throughout the huge continent and return the next morning, feeding Ethiopian’s full African and non-African community.
- 14:15: ET378, Mogadishu; 737-800
- 14:35: ET354, Juba; Sprint-8-Q400
- 15:20: ET374, Hargeisa; 737-800
- 15:30: ET342, Mombasa; 737-800
- 15:30: ET849, Johannesburg; A350-900
- 15:45: ET334, Entebbe; 737-800
- 15:45: ET314, Asmara; 737-800
- 15:55: ET364, Djibouti (by way of Dire Dawa outbound); 737-700
- 16:00: ET306, Nairobi; 737 MAX 8
- 16:00: ET346, Khartoum; 737-800
- 17:00: ET929, Accra; 737 MAX 8
- 21:35: ET843, Kinshasa; 737-800
- 22:00: ET893, Harare; 737-800
- 22:05: ET452, Cairo; 777-200LR
- 22:10: ET891, Lusaka; 737-800
- 22:45: ET821, Kigali; 737-800
- 22:45: ET338, Entebbe; 737 MAX 8
- 23:15: ET308, Nairobi; 737 MAX 8
- 23:30: ET859, Johannesburg; 787-9
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Ethiopian Airways
- IATA/ICAO Code:
- ET/ETH
- Airline Kind:
- Full Service Provider
- Hub(s):
- Addis Ababa Bole Worldwide Airport
- Yr Based:
- 1945
- Alliance:
- Star Alliance
- CEO:
- Mesfin Tasew Bekele
- Nation:
- Ethiopia
