Ethiopia has signed an agreement for the design of a new four-runway airport that will be Africa’s biggest when construction is completed in 2029, the head of state-owned Ethiopian Airlines said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Located near the town of Bishoftu, around 45 km (28 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa, the airport will have capacity to handle 100 million passengers a year and provide parking for 270 aircraft, Ethiopian Airlines’ CEO Mesfin Tasew told a news conference.<\/p>\n
Dubai-based engineering and consulting firm Sidara will design the airport, the company’s director of operations Tariq Al Qanni said.<\/p>\n
Plans to build the airport were first announced in 2018.<\/p>\n
Mesfin said Bole Addis Ababa International Airport, the current main hub for Africa’s biggest airline, will soon reach its capacity of serving 25 million passengers per year.<\/p>\n
“It is a five-year project (that) will be finalised in 2029. It will be the biggest in Africa,” Mesfin said.<\/p>\n
“Phase one alone will cost at least $6 billion… The money will come through loans and there are already companies that already showed interest.”<\/p>\n
Ethiopian Airlines carried\u00a017 million passengers\u00a0in the 2023\/2024 financial year, and expects to carry 20 million passengers in the financial year that started in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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