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· Ethiopian Airlines has won the ‘Overall Excellence for Outstanding Crisis Leadership 2020 Award’ from Global Finance magazine
· Ethiopian has made redeployment of organizational resources to the Cargo division to airlift life-saving COVID-19 PPE and medical supplies
· For this, the airline has reconfigured 25 passenger airplanes for cargo-only flights
Another feather has been added to the cap of the Ethiopian Airlines. It has won the ‘Overall Excellence for Outstanding Crisis Leadership 2020 Award’ from Global Finance magazine. The recognition is for the airline for its timely effort for responding to the global pandemic crisis and in assisting their customers, protecting their employees and providing critical support to society at large.
Tewolde GebreMariam, Ethiopian Group CEO, while acknowledging the recognition said that the Award’ was a testimony of distinct capabilities of successful management of multiple crises taking place simultaneously.
Ethiopian has made redeployment of organizational resources to the Cargo division to airlift life-saving COVID-19 PPE and medical supplies. For this, the airline has reconfigured 25 passenger airplanes for cargo-only flights. It had also deployed aircrafts for repatriation of stranded people across the geographies.
Ethiopian played a critical role in transporting medical supplies and stranded people after COVID-19 struck. Since the outbreak, Ethiopian operated over 360 charter cargo flights. The airline had carried medical supplies to over 80 countries and helped transport 63,000 citizens of different nationalities stuck at various places.
