ET changes to 3 daily widebody flights to JNB
Ethiopian Airlines is increasing Addis Ababa to Johannesburg to 3x daily. But that's not the real news: it had that many flights in 2018, 2019, and in early 2020, and is simply returning to that level. Instead, it's noteworthy because every flightevery day will be by a widebody – the first time it has happened. It comes as São Paulo and Buenos Aires return to 1x daily and soon after the launch of Amman.
Ethiopian currently serves the large South Africa city 2x daily. It'll rise to 17x weekly from the end of October, with 3x daily on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and 2x daily on the other four days.
But from November 30th, it'll be 3x daily every day, in time for the Southern Hemisphere's peak summer, returning to a level last seen on a regular basis in March 2020. And each will be by either the A350 or B787.
The increase in frequency and the number of seats per flight because of being all-widebody has resulted in seats for sale rising by a whopping quarter over winter 2019 to a quarter of a million, as shown in the future below. It is by far the highest ever.
Johannesburg is an important market for Ethiopian. Indeed, of all of its international markets this coming winter, it'll be one of just five served 3x daily or more. It joins Dubai (3x daily, all widebody), Entebbe (3x daily, all narrowbody), Khartoum (3x daily, all narrowbody), and Nairobi (3x daily, all narrowbody).
