{"id":273592,"date":"2019-04-20T02:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T06:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvZXRoaW9waWFuLWFudGljaXBhdGVzLWJlY29taW5nLXVzZC0yNS1iaWxsaW9uLWNvbXBhbnnSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:21:58","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-group-aimed-to-become-a-usd-25-billion-company-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273592","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines Group aimed to become a USD 25 billion company by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Ethiopian Airlines Group said it wanted to grow into a <strong>USD 25 billion<\/strong> company by 2035, bundling passenger, cargo, MRO, and hospitality ambitions into one long runway.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-465989\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ethiopian-Airlines.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopian Airlines Group aimed to become a USD 25 billion company by 2035\" \/>\n<p>The Reporter Ethiopia summarized the plan as a fast-growth pitch: expand hubs, cargo capacity, and related businesses so the carrier stayed Africa\u2019s dominant aviation brand while generating hard currency for a forex-starved state.<\/p>\n<p>For Ethiopian readers, the number was never only corporate bravado. Ethiopian Airlines has long been both a national pride instrument and a revenue machine that Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government leaned on while other exporters struggled.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as reference, the 25-billion target belongs with other megaprojects of that era: ambitious timelines, heavy state branding, and a lasting question about who captures the gains when the flagship succeeds and the wider economy does not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/ethiopian-anticipates-becoming-usd-25-billion-company\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian anticipates becoming a USD 25 billion company&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaAs part of its fast and profitable growth strategy Ethiopian Airlines Group is planning to become a USD 25 billion company by 2035, it was learnt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":465989,"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-273592","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\/2023\/10\/Ethiopian-Airlines.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273592","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601039,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273592\/revisions\/601039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}