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Regarding the upcoming services, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam, remarked, \u201cIt gives us great pleasure to launch flights to Istanbul, connecting Europe\u2019s largest city to the over 60 African destinations we serve, through our hub Addis Ababa. Turkey being one of the fastest growing countries among the emerging economies, availability of seamless connectivity options will facilitate the channeling of investors and enhance business ties between the two regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul marks Ethiopian\u2019s 19th destination in Europe. Ethiopian is currently serving 119 international destinations across five continents with young aircraft with an average fleet age of five years. It will also bring the number of passenger flights the airline operates to European cities to 57 per week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, announced that it has finalized all preparations to launch a direct thrice weekly flight to Istanbul, Turkey as of 1 April, 2019. Istanbul is the largest European city and Turkey\u2019s historic, industrial and financial capital. Regarding the upcoming services, Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopian Airlines to launch flight services to Istanbul - TimesKuwait<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/ethiopian-airlines-to-launch-flight-services-to-istanbul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ethiopian Airlines to launch flight services to Istanbul - TimesKuwait\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, announced that it has finalized all preparations to launch a direct thrice weekly flight to Istanbul, Turkey as of 1 April, 2019. 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