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Sep 10, 2020 (newstodate): Ethiopian Airlines is planning to increase frequency on its Scandinavian routes again from December 2020.
Starting from December 14, 2020, the carrier will add a fifth weekly rotation on the route from Addis Ababa to Stockholm, continuing to Oslo and back to Ethiopia again via Stockholm using Boeing 787-8 aircraft.
With the first flight on March 27, 2017, Ethiopian Airlines has been offering five weekly rotations between Addis Ababa and Oslo, going up to six weekly rotations from December 2018, and providing the first direct air link from Oslo to Africa via Stockholm that had been served since October 28, 2003.
Passenger flights on the route were, however, suspended from March till May 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and today four weekly rotations are offered.
In the plans for summer 2020, the airline even scheduled daily flights from June 25, on the route - which was however scrapped as the Covid-19 took command.
In addition to the passenger flights, Ethiopian Cargo is also serving the Norwegian market twice-weekly by re-routing freighters and all-cargo flights on its European network to operate via Oslo Airport on their return flights in support of the country's seafood export, adding transfer options to Asia at Addis Ababa Airport.