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Ethiopian Airlines ready to talk to Air Mauritius, SAA

Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa) is in talks with Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) about its participation in the insolvent carrier and is also ready to enter into similar talks with other struggling airlines in Africa, Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam told Bloomberg.

"The Mauritian government is thinking of restarting that business with Ethiopian Airlines. We are at the initial point of the discussion to see what kind of partnership or joint venture it will be," he said.

Air Mauritius went into voluntary administration in late April.

He said that while no talks are currently ongoing, Ethiopian would also be willing to discuss options for rescuing South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo).

South African Airways was placed under business rescue in December 2019. However, following government's decision to cease funding the airline in early April, its business rescue practitioners (BRP) warned the airline faced the prospect of liquidation given the unlikelihood that it would successfully emerge from business rescue as a viable entity. Since then, talks have taken place between...

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Ghana selects Ethiopian Airlines for strategic partner

The Ghanaian Government has selected Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa) as the strategic partner for its planned new national carrier.

According to Aviation Ghana, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Aviation Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda, at Ethiopian’s headquarters in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, December 4. A final agreement is due before Christmas.

Other contenders that had put forward proposals included Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul New) and Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius).

According to the report, the Ghanaian government will not take more than a 10% stake in the airline, which is expected to launch in 2019. Ethiopian will control49% and private Ghanaian investors will hold the remaining 41%.

Ethiopian has interests in multiple (nascent) carriers across Africa including Guinea Airlines, ASKY Airlines, Tchadia Airlines, Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines, Malawi Airlines, and Zambia Airways.

During the recently ended AFRAA AGM in Rabat, Congo Airways (8Z, Kinshasa N'Djili) chief executive reiterated the carrier's plans to partner Ethiopian Airlines.

"I think it is...

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