Ethiopia to build airport hub, graduates 201 professionals
ETHIOPIAN government has concluded
plans to build a new airport for the
capital, Addis Ababa next year. The
facility, expected to take eight years and
cost $4 billion, will serve as a major hub
for African air transport, according to
the Transport Minister, Workneh
Gebeyehu.
He said the airport would have four
runways and capacity for more than 100
million passengers per year.
He stated that the Ethiopian government
has narrowed the choice of prospective
sites to three, all of which are between
37 and 44 miles from the center of Addis
Ababa. While French airport engineering
specialist ADPI is conducting the
planning study for the new facility.
Meanwhile, Ethiopian Airports
Enterprise is completing a $350 million
expansion of Addis Ababa’s existing Bole
International Airport. This project is
scheduled for completion in 2018 and
will triple the current passenger capacity
of 7 million per year, he noted.
Also, Ethiopian Aviation Academy, the
largest aviation academy in Africa has
announced that it has graduated 24
pilots, 96 aviation maintenance
technicians, 37 cabin crew and 44
marketing professionals held at
Ethiopian Headquarters on Monday.
The training has equipped the graduates
with sufficient theoretical and practical
knowledge to qualify them in their
carrier as Aviation professionals.
The Group Chief Executive Officer,
Tewolde GebreMariam, who
congratulated the new graduates and
welcomed them to the airline’s fast
growing and dedicated workforce, gave
out diplomas to all the graduates, flight
wings to graduating pilots and cabin
crew and achievement award to
graduates with outstanding academic
performance.
His words: “Ethiopian Aviation Academy
is the bedrock of the airline’s success.
Self-sufficiency in training of all aviation
Services expertise right from the
inception of our business has been one
of the major success factors of Ethiopian
Airlines.
That is why we have invested huge
amount of time, energy and money for
the expansion of our Aviation Academy
to meet the demand for trained aviation
expertise of the 21st century and to set
the standard in high-level quality
education demanded by the aviation
profession.
He added, “We will continue to invest in
the Academy to scale up its capacity both
in scope and scale not only to meet our
internal demand for more than 17,000
employees envisaged in our vision 2025
but also to address the critical shortage
of trained and qualified aviation
professionals prevailing in the continent
of Africa. Shortage of trained and skilled
human power is one of the major
reasons why our continent is lagging
behind in all measurements of
development in the civil aviation sector.”
Ethiopian Aviation Academy is certified
by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation
Authority, the U.S Federal Aviation
Administration, the European Aviation
Safety Agency (EASA), and IATA Safety
Audit (IOSA). The Academy has been
providing training for pilots,
maintenance technicians, cabin crew,
marketing personnel and in leadership
development for Ethiopian and 50
different countries from all over the
world for more than six decades.
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