{"id":41041,"date":"2026-07-29T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41041"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:37:25","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-revenue-jumps-20","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopian-airlines-revenue-jumps-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines revenue jumps 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; full-year 2025\/26 revenue rose 20% from \u200cthe same period a year earlier to $9.1 billion, state-run <em>Ethiopia News Agency<\/em> said this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The state-owned carrier, Africa&#8217;s biggest airline, said passenger numbers increased by 10% to 20.7 million in its \u2060financial year to July 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cargo freight rose 16% year on year to 897 000 metric tons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Airlines, which operates more than 150 aircraft, said in April that it would buy six additional Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jets to expand long-haul services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The carrier said in June that it would decide within three months \u200con \u2060an order for 25 smaller commercial jets to expand its local network.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline added nine aircraft to its fleet over the year, the news agency said, adding \u2060that the carrier has also expanded its facilities at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The state-owned company did not disclose \u2060profit figures, but the news agency said that financial performance was affected by flight cancellations \u2060caused by conflict in the Middle East and the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22653,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-41041","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"State-owned Ethiopian Airlines' full-year 2025\/26 revenue rose 20%","published_date":"2026-07-29 17:36:50","news_description":"State-owned Ethiopian Airlines' full-year 2025\/26 revenue rose 20%","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41041","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\/41041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41042,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41041\/revisions\/41042"}],"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=41041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}