The Nation Newspaper Ethiopian Airlines breaks silence on Nigeria Air
, Mr. Mesfin Tasew has said that the East African carrier never had any plan to set up an airline in Nigeria but was invited by the Federal Government to establish a national carrier, Nigeria Air.
This prompted Ethiopian Airlines to want to withdraw but the Nigerian officials insisted that it should continue the process of establishing the national carrier for the most populous nation in Africa. “Then the Nigerian government wanted the structure of investors to be Nigerian investing institutions and the Nigerian government wanted only five percent shares to ensure that they have presence in the airline and to facilitate the establishment of the airline.
“So, when we came in, it was a matter of restructuring the ownership of that Nigeria Air. For your information, the logo was already defined by them, it was not by Ethiopian Airlines. And we thought that if Nigeria Air is established, the benefit will be for Nigerian public, for Nigerian government. “At one point, that leadership of Nigeria Air, which doesn’t include Ethiopian Airlines, asked us to bring aircraft painted with Nigerian logo to facilitate the progress of the Air Operators’ Certificate. So, we agreed with that, we took out one of our aircraft, we painted it with Nigerian logo, we flew it, it was for demonstration by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority for their inspection. So, after two days, we brought back the aircraft, repainted it with Ethiopian logo and it is flying.
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