{"id":23562,"date":"2026-02-10T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopian-airlines-half-year-revenue-up-14-from-previous-year\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:20","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-half-year-revenue-up-14-from-previous-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopian-airlines-half-year-revenue-up-14-from-previous-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines half year revenue up 14% from previous year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Ethiopian Airlines, Africa&#8217;s biggest commercial carrier, said on Tuesday that its half-year revenue rose 14% from the previous year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The revenue has helped for introduction of new destinations, more flights and seven new aircraft.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Chief Executive Mesfin Tasew told a press conference that the state-owned airline recorded $4.4 billion in revenue in the first six months of its financial year, which began on July 8.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Ethiopian Airlines has a fleet of about 150 aircraft. In January, it announced an order\u00a0with Boeing for nine 787 Dreamliner jets amid growing demand for long-haul travel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The company also officially started construction of a $12.5 billion airport in January that officials say will be Africa&#8217;s largest when completed in 2030.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22653,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-23562","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Ethiopian Airlines is Africa's biggest commercial carrier","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26489,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23562\/revisions\/26489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}