{"id":450254,"date":"2023-06-13T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=450254"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T12:19:30","slug":"ethiopian-air-force-head-appointed-ethiopian-airlines-board-chairman-in-shock-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/450254","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Air force head appointed Ethiopian Airlines board chairman in shock move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia\u2019s flag carrier, Ethiopian Airlines Group (EAG) disclosed on Monday Yilma Merdassa, current chief of Ethiopian Air force (EAF), has been appointed as its new board chairman in a move that has shocked many airlines industry watchers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a press statement, EAG said Yilma has been appointed by the Ethiopian government as its new board chairman effective from June 8.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yilma replaces Girma Wake who had served as ET\u2019s board chairman since March 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girma, who has more than three decades\u2019 experience in Ethiopian Airlines previously served as its CEO from 2004 to 2011.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ethiopian Airlines Group statement didn\u2019t mention any reason for the replacement of Girma a widely respected airlines industry professional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founded in 1946, Ethiopian Airlines Group is one of Africa\u2019s largest air carriers with more than 130 international passenger and cargo destinations across five continents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s flag carrier, Ethiopian Airlines Group (EAG) disclosed on Monday Yilma Merdassa, current chief of Ethiopian Air force (EAF), has been appointed as its new board chairman in a move that has shocked many airlines industry watchers.\u00a0 In a press statement, EAG said Yilma has been appointed by the Ethiopian government as its new board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":450255,"comment_status":"open","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":[5845],"class_list":["post-450254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/gy.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1T8a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450254","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450256,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450254\/revisions\/450256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}