{"id":334428,"date":"2020-10-14T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiENw862MnB7LJrVdHQS3y4aYqGQgEKhAIACoHCAownOOCCzCN6o0DMIfD_QU?oc=5"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:23:32","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-suspends-privatization-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/334428","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines suspends privatization plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ethiopian Government suspends its plan to partially privatize Ethiopian Airlines, according to a report by AFP. Airlines industry experts say that Ethiopian Airlines has been able to stay profitable by paying its 14,000 employees less than 1\/10th of what other airlines pay.<\/strong>      <\/p>\n<p>(AFP) &#8211; Following a review of its Flag Carrier, Ethiopia has &#8220;temporarily&#8221; suspended plans to partially privatize Ethiopian Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by Minister of Finance Ahmed Shide. He said the airline company has continued to generate much needed foreign currency for the country amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Airlines is one of the few to stay relatively stable, largely due to a shift from passenger flights to cargo as countries closed their airspaces.<\/p>\n<p>It changed 27 of its passenger planes into freight transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Partially privatizing Ethiopian Airlines was part of the economic reforms ushered in after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>But now, it says that Africa\u2019s largest airline will remain, for now, in the hands of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines privatisation &#8220;temporarily&#8221; halted&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334667,"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-334428","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\/2020\/10\/Ethiopian-Airlines.jpg?fit=911%2C525&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1p00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334428","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=334428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334668,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334428\/revisions\/334668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}