{"id":46958,"date":"2026-09-30T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46958"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:30:39","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-agrees-to-buy-10-boeing-cargo-planes-has-option-for-eight-more","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopian-airlines-agrees-to-buy-10-boeing-cargo-planes-has-option-for-eight-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines agrees to buy 10 Boeing cargo planes, has option for eight more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines this Wednesday signed a deal to buy 10 Boeing cargo planes, and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said the state-owned airline had the option to buy eight more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CEO Mesfin \u2060Tasew told a signing ceremony in Addis Ababa that the deal was for eight Boeing 777-8Fs and two 777Fs, confirming what industry sources told Reuters earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mesfin said the catalogue price of the aircraft was $5 billion but that the actual price agreed was confidential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u200cEthiopian \u2060Airlines had a right to purchase eight more 777-8Fs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline already operates 12 777F cargo planes, as well as three Boeing 767 freighters and four \u2060converted 737s on medium-haul routes, as part of a fleet of more than 140 jets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline is helping \u2060to fund a $12.5 billion plan for what officials say will be Africa&#8217;s largest airport, \u2060with phase one due to open in 2030.<\/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-46958","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ethiopian Airlines signed a deal to buy 10 Boeing cargo planes","published_date":"2026-09-30 19:30:08","news_description":"Ethiopian Airlines signed a deal to buy 10 Boeing cargo planes","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46958","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\/46958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46959,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46958\/revisions\/46959"}],"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=46958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}