Accra, June 20, GNA - Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines (ET) has won the 2016 Airline Reliability Performance Award, for the sixth year in a row, from Bombardier Aerospace.
A statement issued in Accra by Mrs Hanna Atnafu, Manager Corporate Communications, Ethiopian Airlines said the Airline Reliability Performance Award recognizes operators of Bombardier CRJ Series regional jets and Q Series turboprops who have achieved the highest rates of dispatch reliability.
Mr Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO Ethiopian Airlines said: “We are honoured to receive Bombardier’s Airline Reliability Performance Award for the sixth consecutive year. In line with our continuous effort to provide our customers a seamless travel experience, Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircrafts has enabled us to offer the best on board experience on our regional and domestic routes”.
He said through their strategic partnerships with ASKY Airlines in Togo and Malawian Airlines in Malawi, the Q400 airliner has played a vital role in availing convenient connections, as well as increasing frequencies to support air travel growth in Africa and successfully create a missing link.
“I wish to thank our Engineering team at Ethiopian MRO, Turbo Prop and Light A/C team as well as the Bombardier Field Service representatives for this notable milestone,” he added.
Ethiopian flies the Q-400 to 20 domestic destinations and regional routes such as Djibouti, Mombasa, Kilimanjaro, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Entebbe, Kigali, Juba, Khartoum and Hargeisa.
Ethiopian is multi award winning carrier and has recently been crowned the
‘African Airline of the Year 2017 Award’, ‘Cargo Airline Award for Network Development at Brussels’ in June and March respectively.
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