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Feb 23, 2024 (newstodate): In January '24, reports were that Norway would see less of Ethiopian Airlines' flights in the coming summer '24 schedule.
This is, however, not going to be; the carrier has now scheduled seven weekly flights connecting Addis Ababa and Oslo for summer '24, as hitherto routed via Stockholm as an extension of the Addis-Stockholm route.
Ethiopian Airlines first launched services to Scandinavia in 2001 with flights to Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, but moved the Scandinavian service to Stockholm in Sweden from October 28, 2003, mainly to tap into the large ethnic market in this country.
The carrier next extended the route with a further leg between Stockholm and Oslo from March 27, 2017, adding more Norwegian passengers and - not least - shipments of Norwegian seafood to the flight.
In addition to the passenger services, Ethiopian Airlines also launched freighter operations at Oslo Airport in 2020, flying in from Liege and continuing to Seoul, South Korea, before touching down at Addis Ababa, today served with three weekly operations.