Ethiopian Airlines to direct flights to Garowe

ADDIS ABABA ( Halbeeg News) – Ethiopian Airlines has announced it will start its first flight to Somalia’s northeastern town, Garowe mid next month.

In a statement, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Mr. Tewolde GebereMariam said the launch of its flight to Garowe, Somalia, via Bossaso will be effective 15 July 2019.

“Regarding the launch of the flight, It gives us a great pleasure to launch our flight to Garowe, Somalia,” said the CEO.

Mr. Tewolde commended the company’s new flights to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

“In addition to our operating flight to Mogadishu, Somalia, the new service significantly strengthens the long-standing people-to-people, economic and political ties between the two neighborly and sisterly countries,” the statement reads in part.

He said It will also enable the important Somali Diaspora in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Europe and Africa to travel to their homeland via Addis Ababa, our main hub, as well as get connected to the world thanks to our extended global network of over 120 international destinations.

“We will keep serving the huge volume of traffic between the two sisterly countries and the traffic between Somalia and the rest of the world with more frequencies and route network,” he stated.

The flight schedule to Garowe, Somalia is as per the below:

Flight
Number Frequency
Departure
Airport Departure time Arrival

Airport Arrival
Time Sub Fleet

ET 0368 Mon, Wed,
Sat. ADD 11:30 BSA 13:35 ET DH8

ET 0368 Mon, Wed,
Sat. BSA 14:35 GGR 15:20 ET DH8

ET 0368 Mon, Wed,
Sat. GGR 16:20 ADD 18:20 ET DH8

Ethiopian launched its debut flight to Somalia, Mogadishu last August after 4 decades ago.