Ethiopian Air becomes 1st outside Japan to fly Dreamliner
(USA TODAY)Ethiopian Airlines today became the first airline in the world outside Japan to fly paying passengers on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The carrier entered the aviation history books today at 12:50 p.m. ET, inaugurating passenger service on the jet around 1:30 p.m. with a special flight from Washington Dulles to the carrier’s hub in Addis Ababa. [...]
(USA TODAY)Ethiopian Airlines today became the first airline in the world outside Japan to fly paying passengers on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
The carrier entered the aviation history books today at 12:50 p.m. ET, inaugurating passenger service on the jet around 1:30 p.m. with a special flight from Washington Dulles to the carrier’s hub in Addis Ababa. Today’s flight comes just two days after Ethiopian officially took delivery of the first commercial jet to be made from carbon fiber construction instead of more-traditional aluminum and steel.
“I think it’s an historic milestone for an African airline,” Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said Wednesdaywhile aboard a special “delivery flight” from Boeing’s factory in Everett, Wash., that positioned it in Washington Dulles for today’s inaugural flight. (See above video for more from the delivery flight.)
Gebremariam said it was hard to overstate the significance of Ethiopian’s status as one of the first airlines in the world to put the Dreamliner into service. With today’s flight, Ethiopian has beaten all of the big global carriers from the United States and Europe in deploying the revolutionary jet. Only Japanese carriers All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines have flown the jet earlier.
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