PIA NEWS

France suspends Ethiopian Airlines flights for four days

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jan 28^th 2021 |

The French government is suspending Ethiopian Airlines for four days over a failure to ensure passengers have had negative coronavirus tests, the transport ministry a...

Pakistan's PIA suspended in Europe over fake pilot licence scandal

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jul 1^st 2020 |

Regulators have barred Pakistan International Airlines from the European Union for six months after the state-run carrier grounded nearly a third of its pilots for ho...

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A Pakistan International Airlines A320 crashes near Karachi (updated 23/05)

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sat, May 23^rd 2020 |

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft crashed Friday afternoon over a residential district of Karachi. The aircraft, an Airbus A320 registered AP-BLD (MSN 2...

Ethiopian Airlines: Africa's biggest airline fights for 'survival' amid pandemic

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Apr 22^nd 2020 |

In early March, Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told an aviation conference in Addis Ababa the coronavirus...

Ethiopia opens aid transport hub to fight COVID-19

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Apr 15^th 2020 |

Ethiopia and the United Nations on Tuesday opened a humanitarian transport hub at Addis Ababa airport to move supplies and aid workers across Africa to fight coronavi...

Boeing training on 737 MAX 'inadequate': Ethiopia crash report

AIR SECURITY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Mar 9^th 2020 |

Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was fl...

Sanad Aerotech and Ethiopian Airlines to create a centre of excellence in Africa for APUs

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Feb 13^th 2020 |

Sanad Aerotech has gained a foothold in Africa. The Mubadala subsidiary has announced that it signed an agreement wit...

A very good Paris Air Show for Collins Aerospace's aftermarket activities

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jul 18^th 2019 |

Collins Aerospace (UTC) took advantage of the 53rd Paris Air Show at Le Bourget to announce over 1.5 billion dollars' worth of contracts for its aftermarket activities...

Embattled Boeing to give $100 mn to 737 MAX crash victims' families

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jul 4^th 2019 |

Boeing, under scrutiny after two crashes that claimed 346 lives, announced Wednesday it would give $100 million to communities and families affected by the 737 MAX di...

Ethiopian Airlines 'has flown' black boxes of crashed Boeing to Paris

AIR SECURITY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Mar 14^th 2019 |

Ethiopian Airlines said Thursday that the black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed with 157 people on board have been flown to Paris for anal...

Ethiopia to send black boxes to Europe as questions mount over crash

AIR SECURITY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Mar 13^th 2019 |

Ethiopia said Wednesday it would send the black boxes from last weekend's deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash to Europe for analysis as urgency mounted for answers amid s...

Ethiopia to privatise parts of Ethiopian Airlines, telecom

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jun 6^th 2018 |

Ethiopia will sell off parts of its major state-owned industries including Ethiopian Airlines and the country's lone telecom company, the ruling party announced on Tu...

Ethiopian Airlines strengthens its MRO capabilities

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Apr 27^th 2017 |

Ethiopian Airlines is generating a lot of talk on an operational level with its ambitious "Vision 2025". But this development plan doesn't stop there and MRO has alway...

Pakistan airline denies passengers forced to stand

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Feb 27^th 2017 |

Pakistan's national carrier said Sunday it would investigate allegations that a plane flew from Karachi to Saudi Arabia carrying seven extra passengers, but denied th...

Ethiopian adds ninth Boeing 787 Dreamliner to its fleet

AIR TRANSPORT | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Aug 7^th 2014 |

Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable African airline, is pleased to announce that it has added its ninth Boeing 787 Dreamliner to its expanding ...