Addis Ababa, October 8, 2021 (Walta) – Ethiopian Airlines refutes the recent allegations by CNN regarding the airlines’ involvement in transporting weapons.
Full statement of the Ethiopian Airlines is stated below.
Ethiopian Airlines is a multi-award-winning global airline which is one of the senior members of IATA and member of Star Alliance for a decade, and which has been providing safe and reliable air transport service to the continent of Africa and the rest of the world for the last 75 years and that has been commended for its humanitarian and commercial operations in good and bad times. Accordingly, Ethiopian Airlines strictly complies with all National, regional, and International aviation-related regulations.
Hence, Ethiopian Airlines strongly refutes the recent allegations by CNN and would like to confirm that to the best of its knowledge and its records, it has not transported any war armament in any of its routes by any of its Aircraft. The mentioned airwaybills in the CNN article clearly show that the nature of goods transported on the alleged flights was “Foodstuff and Refill” as declared on the document as per IATA standards. The alleged pictures are not known to Ethiopian Airlines.
We would also like to confirm that we don’t have any employees suspended or terminated due to their ethnic background. There is no employee in Ethiopian Airlines suspended or terminated from our payroll due to their ethnic background. This can be verified from our Human Resources records.
On top of the four-fold (4X) growth registered in all parameters in the last decade, which repositioned our airline as the Leading Airline in the Continent of Africa, Ethiopian Airlines demonstrated a unique and top of the line level of creativity, agility, resilience, and speed of decision making in managing the devastating global pandemic crisis.
Thus, we would like to assure all our passengers and the public that Ethiopian Airlines strictly complies with all International aviation related regulations & standards, doesn’t deviate from any civil aviation regulations in all its operations, it has never been engaged in any weapons transportation, and kindly requests correction in this report.