Ethiopian Airlines and Lufthansa Announce New Codeshare Agreement

Ethiopian Airlines and German airline Lufthansa have announced a codeshare agreement through which passengers can fly with either airline on routes between Frankfurt, Germany and Addis Ababa.

A Lufthansa Airbus A300-600 will depart from Frankfurt for Addis Ababa four times weekly, with a stopover in Khartoum, Sudan. Ethiopian Airlines will operate a thrice-weekly Boeing 767 service on this route.

The codeshare agreement and the cooperation between Lufthansa and Ethiopian Airlines have established the basis for further collaboration. The frequent flyer programs of both airlines have been linked since October 2007. Members of the Lufthansa Miles & More program and Ethiopian Sheba Miles can thus earn and redeem miles on any of the partner airline’s flights.

Wolfgang Mayrhuber, chairman and CEO of Lufthansa, said: “This codesharing agreement will benefit the customers of both airlines. It will boost Lufthansa’s flight offering in Africa and also give passengers from Ethiopia access to our global route network via our Frankfurt hub.”