Well things don’t stand still in the aviation industry. With SkyTeam concentrating work in Africa, OneWorld in Europe, Star Alliance is working with African/Middle Eastern Carriers with the announcement that Ethiopian Airlines will be joining Star.
Timetabled for full membership in the next 12 months, Ethiopian will be mentored by Lufthansa as they migrate systems towards being compliant.
This makes Star Alliance bigger with 29 airlines, 5 new countries to serve added and 29 new destinations
There are the usual quotes saying how good it is, but this should open up some intresting travel options to people making redemptions
And it’s not as if Ethiopian are staying still with the a lot of new aircraft on order – in particular Boeing 777-200LR’s, Boeing 787’s and Airbus A350-900’s to reequip it’s longhaul fleet.
It’s current fleet is a mix of
- Regional – Fokker 50’s and Dash 8-400’s
- Short Haul – Boeing 737-700’s and 800’s
- Long Haul – Boeing 757’s and Boeing 767ER’s for long haul work.
Another growth for Star Alliance – but there is still the long langishing membership of Air India to sort out still…
