Sunday 19 November 2017

Ethiopian Airlines launches scheduled flight to Buenos Aires via Sao Paulo on 8 March 2018

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



In the November/December 2017 edition of Selamta, Ethiopian Airlines Inflight Magazine, which celebrates the arrival of Ethiopian Airlines' first B787-900 Dreamliner aircraft,  Ethiopian Airlines advertised that it was launching direct flight to Buenos Aires from Addis Ababa from December 2017. After the inflight magazine was published, the airline clarified that its first flight to Buenos Aires will take place on 8 March 2018 instead, via Sao Paulo, Brazil.

On 8 March 2018, Ethiopian flight ET0506 departs from Addis Ababa for Buenos Aires via Sao Paulo at 9.30 am. It transit in Sao Paulo at 5.10 pm before leaving Sao Paulo for Buenos Aires at 6.10 pm and touching down in Buenos Aires at 7.40 pm.

In the evening of 8 March 2018 Argentina time, Ethiopian flight ET0507 embarks on the journey to Addis Ababa from Buenos Aires via Sao Paulo at 11 pm, arrives in Sao Paulo at 2.30 am on 9 March 2018 before departing from Sao Paulo at 3.30 am and arriving in Addis Ababa at 8.30 pm.

Flights leaving Addis Ababa and Buenos Aires are on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays using one of Ethiopian B787 Dreamliner aircraft.

Ethiopian Airlines received its first B787-900 Dreamliner aircraft on 26 October 2017 and deployed it initially on its route to Abuja, Nigeria, on 7 November 2017. 

The Ethiopian B787-900 Dreamliner aircraft has a total of 313 seats including 30 Cloud Nine Business and 283 Economy Class seats. It features an audio and video on-demand entertainment system, greatly reduced noise, higher cabin air humidity, adaptable lighting, the biggest windows in the sky and enables the airline to reduce its carbon footprint with up to 20 per cent less fuel consumption than its older B787-800 fleet.



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