Ethiopian to Start New Services to the SeychellesFriday, 7 October 2011
Ethiopian 737-800
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing African Airline, is pleased to announce that it will launch new services to the Seychelles, reinforcing its commitment to strengthen the eastern African network and continue to expand its wings to more African destinations. The new service will start on November 15, 2011.
The Republic of the Seychelles is the paradise of hideout for the discerning and discriminating vacationer spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, 1500 kms east of Mainland Africa. The country is a world leader in sustainable ecotourism which attracts more than 400,000 visitors every year. Ethiopian will now provide more options for passengers flying from any part of the world to the Seychelles and vise versa through its strategic hub at Addis Ababa International Airport.
“We are pleased to introduce new services to Africa’s premier tourist destination providing easier and convenient access for visitors to the exotic city of Victoria and enhancing connections from there to more points across Ethiopian’s extensive global network. As part of our growth strategy, we continue to expand our presence in more African cities promoting and facilitating growth in the business and tourism sectors”, said, Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines.
Ethiopian will serve the Seychelles thrice weekly on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays with its 737 wide body aircraft.
Ethiopian also offers special fares for tour packages to the major African tourist destinations such as Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Dar-Es-Salaam, Johannesburg, Malindi, Maputo, Djibouti and Cairo.
Etihad to fly to Seychelles
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has announced it will commence operations to Mahe in the Republic of Seychelles on November 1, subject to government approval.
Etihad will operate four return services per week from its home base in Abu Dhabi to Seychelles International Airport in Mahe, operating Airbus A320 aircraft on the route, configured with two cabins - Pearl Business and Coral Economy - and offering 1,088 seats each week.
James Hogan, Etihad Airways' Chief Executive Officer, said: "The Seychelles has strong and growing appeal as a premium leisure destination, with increasing numbers of UAE residents and European travellers holidaying there. With the recent honeymoon of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Seychelles is likely to gain new interest as a destination of choice.
"Our increased frequencies from mid-2011 on some of our primary routes from Europe make the approaching Northern winter period an ideal time to launch these new services. We expect this will be a hugely popular destination, in particular for holidaymakers from the GCC and European markets, due to the ease of connecting services through Abu Dhabi and convenient scheduling", he added.
The Seychelles will become the 68th destination on Etihad's global network.
24 comments:
What kinds of passangers will Ethopia Airways be bringing to our shores?Refugees from Somalis for i never heard that Ethopia is a rich country whose people travel a lot thna hearing from famine and war?
Pp refused to allow a Russian charter flight to our shores which would have boost our tourists arrival but for whatever reasons Pp did not allow it becuase Some Arabs depots friends of Michel do not want that.
Seychellois under Pp the country has failed on all front,it is high time for a revolution,else we will end up as failed state as Zimbabwe,N.Korea and Cuba.
Jeanne D'Arc
"What kinds of passangers will Ethopia Airways be bringing to our shores?"
Ou bann famiy lafen.
Right,thank you as a crony for accepting that PP and St ange are wrong !It also means you agree they are not the kinds of tourists that will bring foreign exchange and increase Tourists arrival in the country thus another Pp failure.
Jeanne D'Arc
The pirates do not like to transit in another country, so now they will have a straight flight back home.
We have to send St. Ange to Somali for a tourism convention. He can choose a few tourism ambassadors from the pirates we sent back to Somali.
We should rather send St Ange there as high Commissionar for Refugees for on tourism he has completely failed.
Jeanne D'Arc
St. Ange and gang is trying to have a gay party in Victoria to boost-up tourism. It seems like the seminars and conferences are are getting enough passengers to enter the Pointe Larue Airport.
I bet you'll be the first there in drags!
Some of you are stuck in the past and sick in the head. If it was British Airways or Air France it would be all smiles. Because it is an African carrier you criticise and ridicule. Some of you are a bunch of colonials who do nothing but whine , complain and boycott. Well I have news for you, you have been left behind and will soon be a once upon a time bunch of bygones !! Learn from James Mancham and move on bunch of retards!
Reply to Wake up it's 2011:
Well said! Those morons have been left so far behind that they will need a map to get back on track!
If James Mancham was a template for being a Seychellois then we would all be turncoat.
IF YOU JUST WOKE UP, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THAT WE ONCE HAD AIR FRANCE AND BRITISH AIRWAYS FLYING TO THE SEYCHELLES CARRYING TOURIST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I THINK IT IS FAIR TO ASK WHERE WILL WE GET THOSE EXPENSIVE TOURIST THAT WE SO DESIRE FROM ETHIOPIA.
MAYBE IT WILL HELP AIR SEYCHELLES GET BACK ON ITS FEET. OR, PROBABLY WIN OVER PASSENGERS FROM THE ARABS AIRLINES.
St Ange should rather tell Pp to allow the Russian charter flight Michel has refused permission to fly here for it will bring tourists with dollars to spend rather than o Ethopia Airline that no one understand how It will particicpate in increaing tourists arrival.The problem is not being an African Airlines or not,it is a question of what benefit will Ethopia Airline bring to our tourism industry in regard to tourists arrival.Basically none.If it was Air Zimbabwe that was flying here in will produce the same rsult as Ethopia Air Zero arrival.On the other hand if it was let say S.African Airways then one can expect some touris arrival for S.African have money to spend on holidays etc...
On colonial
I think Michle has a colonial mentality ,he prefers to enslave his people while he import foreigners to colonize our land and make Seychellois third class citizen.Moreover,giving previlege to foreign Air lines like Qatar UAE Airlines which help to destroy our own Airline is also a sign of colonial mentality.
Jeanne D'Arc
Maybe Michel is aiming to have some refugees here that he can gifted our passports then use them a scpaegoat in order to manipulate our elelction.A mad man is unpredictable and ready to do anything to accomplice his madness.
Airlines that Pp should be contacting ,negocaiting with are:Edelweiss.Swiss charter flight flying regularly to Kenya,even Cuba,Virgin,Russian charter Airline,Maybe if Pp cannot operate a direct flight to Australia,it can at least invite Qantas to do so,and others,but also Air Seychelles flight destination must be revised,it needs to flight destinations where there are potential of attracting tourists .
Jeanne D'Arc
I wait in anticipation for the day when Zandark chokes on her shit! Jeanne Paulette Isaac make sure you take some good photographs showing all the shit spouting from her mouth, ears and nose - that day she will discover for herself how potent one's shit is!
Pissedoff
You have heard thwe announcement made by our extra-ordinary communist trained economist FAURE.i5t told us we have a surplus in revenue.Difficult to understand his figures unless you a trained communist economist.
Let us have a check at Faure's suppposed surplus.
Our economy depends mostly on tourism and since a few years our tourism industry has been operating in the red due to lack of strategy,vision by PP,so where did the surplus come from FAURE?
He might tell us it is from SEPEC.But Sepec does not keep records and no Seychellois have ever seen any record made public by SEPEC on losees or profits?He might tell us it is profits made by IDC-wagain where is the record.
USA is paying a few millions dollars to stationed their drones on our shores-How must money it is paying no publication ,Pp has not even tell Seychellois about it.
Fishing industries due to piracy is operating at lost,just as Air Seychelles.All in all everywhere we look,everywhere we try to find a profit made by the country we saw only deficits .so thwe question that begs an anwer FAURE how can you make a profit and even surplus when our indsutry,economy is at free fall for years now?What magic formula does FAURE possess to be so successful while more powerful ecnomy are also striving to survive?
Awaiting explanation form PP and Profsssor in Economy Dr FAure.
Jeanne DÂrc
What’s with all the beef about Air Ethiopia? Is it because it’s an African airline?
You guys have some very very very deep seated racial issues! I mean how can you all be so anti African? Look at Jean Claude and his family, and that’s a compliment by the way, you can clearly see that you are descendent from either Northern Kenya or Southern Sudan, there is no shame in that except from the similarity in your traits – the Sudanese are massacring their people and you are massacring our democracy – Put you and Jeanne D’arc on mainland Africa none would know the difference. We are all Africans and should be proud of our ethnic mixture because that’s what makes us Kreol. I cannot understand your hostility towards all things African? Africa is a black continent yet the white South Africans and Zimbabweans are proud to be Africans yet the black Seychellois are ashamed to be associated with anything African despite the fact that a great percentage of you are direct descendents of Africans – Jean Paul Isaac was it that because you were raised to believe that all things white is good? Well they lied to you! It’s only skin deep (and the whites are wrecking the world mon Tom) once it’s peeled off we all look as monstrous and as ugly as hell!
I am a proud African and my colour makes no shit of a difference at all!
Embrace your identities you fools and welcome your kindred on our island!
We may all be african but we are not all narrow-minded like Pissedoff.
WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHICH AREA OF OUR ECONOMY GREW SO FAST IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS THAT HAS ALLOW US TO ACCUMULATE A SIGNIFICANT SURPLUS OF MONEY.
WE CAN'T GO ON DEPENDING ON ALMS FROM RICH ARABS, WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT NATION AND WE NEED TO START TO RUN OUR COUNTRY LIKE ONE.
IF THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY IS FAILING, WE NEED TO KNOW WHY, WHERE AND HOW.
A FREEDOM LOVING SESELWA
It came from the money tree at La Misere. How ironic!
It is about the tuorists arrival we expect Airlines coming to our shores to bringing in ,As far as i know Ethopians are not travellers and have money to at least pay a trip to Seychelles a very expensive country.When some Europeans will a good salary find that Seychelles is still expensive could you imagine what that means for an Ethopian earning less than one dollar (not a day)sometimes only.
Jeanne D'Arc
Pissedoff
Maybe Michel should allow Zimbabwe Air,Afganistan Air,Cuba Air,N .Korean Air,Somali Air to fly here too,than we will have all hotel rooms at full accomodation with refugees and poor and that will bring a lot of foreign exchangeaccumulation into our bankrutped ecnomy.
Jeanne D'Arc
Jeanne D'Arc
Of course I'm narrow minded!
How else does one deal with morons like yourselves?
Pissedoff you are not narrow minded. It is a question of survival for you to denigrate everyone on this blog. It is your way of making sure you do not spend the rest of yor sorry life behind bars. It's coming soon pissed -off be afraind.
I denigrate those that denigrate Seychelles!
They way you are going tasyon ou ek ou lasent klik ki pass the rest of your life behind bars!
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