Positive plans to increase the cargo capacity in Africa by adding 98 cities and the best air crafts
A rapidly growing airline in Africa, Ethiopian Airlines, has made up the plans to increase the cargo capacity to the African trade lanes with the launch of services to seven new destinations. This air cargo booster plan is aimed to start in the first five months of this year and will play important role to increase Cargo to Africa.
New Places to be opened by African Airlines
A hubbed airline, announced that they are planning to open new areas between January and June. The areas which they are going to add to increase air cargo are Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Conakry (Guinea), Osla (Norway), Chengdu (China), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Singapore.
New Cities with The Best Aircraft
Ethiopian Airlines is very eager to take lead to promote the air cargo industry in Africa, and their move to open the new destinies is a clear sign that they are doing well.
They are aiming to offer their services to 120 international destinations by 2025. With these new additions, it is also going to offer the flights to 98 cities with the best fleet of Boeing 777, Airbus A350, B787 and Bombardier Q-400 Aircraft.
What Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Said?
The Chief Executive of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam said, “Africa’s share of Global Aviation is the smallest which is only around 3%. As the largest Airline group in the continent, we are highly concerned on the low base of air connectivity in the continent.”
He further added, “Looking beyond the current economic slowdown especially in the oil export dependent economies of Africa, we firmly believe that the continent will become the magnet for foreign direct investments, trade and tourism, which are the engines of air travel growth and in turn efficient air connectivity also drives socio-economic development and we are happy to contribute our share in 21st Century African Transformations.”
IATA Statistics to Show Cargo Load Factor
In the last November, the statistics of IATA showed that the cargo load factors declined year on year for the 19th consecutive months to reach 25.3%, the lowest level of any region which is nominated by the airlines organizations.
However, the efforts of the continent’s largest airline group are up to the mark and these will surely put the air cargo industry to the next levels.
