wxman Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 While I know this has been known for sometime, flights will commence December 15th, 3x weekly. No mention of type of aircraft. I believe somebody mentioned a few months ago it would be on a Dreamliner. https://m.chron.com/business/bizfeed/article/Ethiopian-Airlines-finalizes-plans-for-Houston-14434682.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Its the 788. Perfect size and it looks like it will sit in Houston for 20 hours in order to maximize connections to West Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 6 hours ago, KinkaidAlum said: Its the 788. Perfect size and it looks like it will sit in Houston for 20 hours in order to maximize connections to West Africa. That really makes sense - leave a $100 million+ asset doing nothing for 20 hours. Sabena did that, and ended up going bankrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
102IAHexpress Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 On 9/13/2019 at 8:36 PM, Ross said: That really makes sense - leave a $100 million+ asset doing nothing for 20 hours. Sabena did that, and ended up going bankrupt. That's a fair point. It's rare to sit that long, but it's been done by established airlines too. Japan Airlines’ flight between NRT and BOS has a ground time of approximately 19.5 hours in BOS before returning to NRT for better connectivity to banks. It's fair to be cautious. We will see. Personally I have never flown Ethopian but I have heard good things. Not excellent like the ME3 carriers or one of the Far East Asian Carriers, but -good-. Young fleet, commitment to safety, well managed. It would be helpful if United did a codeshare with them, but I'm not sure if that is in the works or not? Probably not, since United prefers to feed Africa flights via FRA. Anyways, I hope it works out at IAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 On 9/14/2019 at 9:04 PM, 102IAHexpress said: That's a fair point. It's rare to sit that long, but it's been done by established airlines too. Japan Airlines’ flight between NRT and BOS has a ground time of approximately 19.5 hours in BOS before returning to NRT for better connectivity to banks. It's fair to be cautious. We will see. Personally I have never flown Ethopian but I have heard good things. Not excellent like the ME3 carriers or one of the Far East Asian Carriers, but -good-. Young fleet, commitment to safety, well managed. It would be helpful if United did a codeshare with them, but I'm not sure if that is in the works or not? Probably not, since United prefers to feed Africa flights via FRA. Anyways, I hope it works out at IAH! It's a shame they can't do a tag-on flight like AIr China is doing with Panama City. I'm not exactly sure where else a market would exist. For 20 hours you could do just about anything though. Wasn't this flight previously doing LAX? Just add a IAH-LAX RT built in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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