Ethiopian Airlines kept its Asmara route even while about $6 million stayed locked in Eritrea

In June 2019 Africanews reported that Ethiopian Airlines would keep flying to Asmara even though Eritrea was holding about $6 million of the airline’s funds inside a wider pool of roughly $73 million in locked foreign airline money.

Africa’s largest carrier had resumed Eritrea service after the 2018 peace opening, so continuing the route despite blocked cash showed both commercial commitment and the unfinished financial plumbing of Ethio–Eritrean normalization.

Kept as aviation and Eritrea archive, the Africanews report dates Ethiopian Airlines’ mid-2019 decision to stay on the Asmara route despite frozen funds.

Sources: Africanews