{"id":278543,"date":"2019-06-10T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTAvZXRoaW9waWFuLWNvbW1pdHMtdG8tYXNtYXJhLXJvdXRlLWRlc3BpdGUtNm0tbG9ja2VkLWluLWVyaXRyZWEv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:41","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-kept-its-asmara-route-even-while-about-6-million-stayed-locked-in-eritrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278543","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines kept its Asmara route even while about $6 million stayed locked in Eritrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Africanews reported that Ethiopian Airlines would keep flying to Asmara even though Eritrea was holding about $6 million of the airline\u2019s funds inside a wider pool of roughly $73 million in locked foreign airline money.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-photo.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopian Airlines kept its Asmara route even while about $6 million stayed locked in Eritrea\" \/>\n<p>Africa\u2019s 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\u2013Eritrean normalization.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as aviation and Eritrea archive, the Africanews report dates Ethiopian Airlines\u2019 mid-2019 decision to stay on the Asmara route despite frozen funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/06\/10\/ethiopian-commits-to-asmara-route-despite-6m-locked-in-eritrea\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian commits to Asmara route, despite $6m locked in Eritrea&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishEritrea is holding a total of 73 million dollars of such funds with six million of the chunk belonging to Ethiopian Airlines. Africa&#8217;s largest operator resume&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429249,"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-278543","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\/01\/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-photo.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1asD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278543","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=278543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755092,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278543\/revisions\/755092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}