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Ethiopian Aviation Academy trains 262 professionals

Ethiopian Aviation Academy trains 262 professionals

Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi

The Ethiopian Aviation Academy says it has graduated 262 aviation professionals during a recent ceremony held at the academy’s Commercial and Cabin Crew Training centre.

According to the airline, among the graduates were 50 pilots, 66 aviation maintenance technicians, 120 cabin crew and 26 equipment and facility maintenance technicians with 10 majoring in industrial mechanics and 16 in industrial electricity.

“This round of graduates includes a total of 34 nationals of Cameroon, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinean, Togo, and Congo, which testifies Ethiopian Pan African stance and key role in the development of African aviation,” the airline said.

The Group Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, was quoted to have said that education was the greatest equalizer in today’s world and that human resource development was one of the group’s four pillars of its Vision 2025 Strategic Growth Plan.

He said, “In line with this belief, we have invested adequately in capacity building in the Ethiopian Aviation Academy, which is the largest and most modern in the continent of Africa. The academy has been training and graduating the required aviation professionals both for Ethiopian Airlines Group and other partner airlines around the region.

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“It has the capacity to support our Vision 2025 growth plan with adequate aviation professionals and to contribute its share towards the development of aviation in Africa. While I congratulate today’s graduates on their success, I also wish them the best of success when they join our winning team of strong workforce.”

He said the academy currently trained 2000 aviation professionals per annum and it envisaged enhancing its intake capacity to 4,000 by 2025.

Meanwhile, the airline group has announced that it has been recognised as Middle East and Africa Airline of the Year 2017 by Airline Economics, the largest aviation finance and leasing print publication in the world, at a gala dinner held in Dubai.

It added that the winners in the Middle East and Africa Aviation 100 Awards Category had been chosen among the airlines in the Middle East and Africa through customer survey conducted by the magazine.

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