Intl Women’s Day: Ethiopian Airlines to Operate An All-women Flight

• Intl Women’s Day: Ethiopian Airlines to Operate An All-women Flight

To commemorate the International Women’s Day, the Ethiopian Airlines says it has finalised preparations to operate an all-women functioned flight to Oslo, Norway.

Speaking on the initiative, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr Tewolde GabreMariam, said by the move, the Airlines honour and celebrate women for playing a lead role in their success story.

“We are immensely honoured that we have women trailblazers in every aspect of our aviation field. Women are an integral part of our success story from the start and with this dedicated flight, we honour and celebrate their indispensable contribution to our aviation Group and the broader aviation industry, our country and the continent at large.

“Although women are Africa’s greatest resource, gender inequality still persists in our continent. Therefore, we all need to ensure that women take their rightful position in all human endeavour by creating the right conditions and through all-inclusive engagements models,” Mr GabreMaria said.

The Africa’s largest airline, which had previously operated all-women crew flights to Bankok, Kigali, Lagos, and Buenos Aires, said the flight would take Addis Ababa – Stockholm to Oslo, the capital of Norway on March 8, the International Women’s Day.

The all-women operated flight will have the theme, “All women functioned flight to operate from the continent of African to meet with their counterparts in Europe to show the power of women to the world”

The Ethiopian Airlines will be fully functioned by Ethiopian Airlines’ professional women straight from flight deck all the way to the ground including airport operations, flight dispatch, ramp operation, load control, on-board logistics, safety and security, as well as air traffic control.

The Ethiopian Airline Arabic tweeter handle, @AR_Ethiopia, on a tweet in Arabic, posted images of women staff who will be operating the flight, in a way of celebrating the Ethiopian woman.

The tweet in translation reads: “The Ethiopian Airlines is planning to celebrate the International Women’s Day on March 8 in a distinctive way, by assigning a whole flight to an all-women staff from Addis Ababa to Stockholm to Oslo, under the theme “All-women flight from Africa to meet their European counterparts and prove the power of women around the world.”