{"id":259802,"date":"2019-01-04T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T21:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiL2h0dHBzOi8vYWxsYWZyaWNhLmNvbS9zdG9yaWVzLzIwMTkwMTA0MDI1OS5odG1s0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:05:49","slug":"ethiopia-airlines-ready-to-partner-with-airlines-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/259802","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Airlines ready to partner with airlines in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high ranking Ethiopia Airlines official has said the company is willing to partner with airline carriers in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Firiehiwot Mekonnen, the General Manager of Ethiopia Airlines in Nigeria, made the revelations during a recent interview with This Day newspaper. He said the partnership will lead to an increased market share for operators on the continent.\u00a0Firiehiwot explained that foreign airlines are dominating the African travel market hence the need for partnership.<\/p>\n<p>African airlines reportedly have only 20 percent of the air travel market in the country. According to Firiehiwot, this can be changed by African airliners creating stronger partnerships. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201901040259.html\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Ethiopian Airlines officials have begun investigating what caused an aircraft to skid off the runway at Uganda&#8217;s Entebbe International Airport this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria: Mekonnen &#8211; Ethiopian Willing to Partner With Nigerian Airlines&nbsp;&nbsp;AllAfrica.comInterview &#8211; The General Manager of Ethiopia Airlines in Nigeria, Firiehiwot Mekonnen, in this interview, said the airline is willing to partner with Nigeria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ethiopian-Air-GM.jpg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15Am","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259843,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259802\/revisions\/259843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}