Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines Group signed an MoU to build an aircraft component manufacturing plant at Kilinto Industrial Park in Addis Ababa, in a joint venture with Boeing. The $15 million facility will manufacture aerospace internal parts and create over 300 jobs.

Ethiopian Airlines has signed a deal with Boeing and the Industrial Parks Development Corporation to manufacture aerospace parts, including thermo-acoustic insulation blankets, at an initial cost of $15 million.

Geven-SkyTecno and Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated a new joint venture facility, Ethiopian Sky Technologies, in Addis Ababa for manufacturing insulation blankets for Boeing 737 MAX airplanes. Ethiopian Airlines holds 51% and SkyTecno 49%.

Ethiopian Airlines Group is to start manufacturing aircraft interior components in Ethiopia, after forming a partnership with German cabin specialist Aircraft Cabin Modification (ACM).

Rolls-Royce won a $1.5 billion order from Ethiopian Airlines to provide Trent XWB engines for ten Airbus A350-900 aircraft, with TotalCare service support.