Dublin Airport Has A New Route To This Huge But Relatively Unknown African Capital

Out of all the destinations in the world, this would be the last on our list.

Not because we don’t want it, but because we probably wouldn’t have thought about it.

Africa’s largest airline; Ethiopian Airlines will start a new route from Addis Ababa to Dublin via Madrid.

Addis Ababa is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

The new route will start just in time for Christmas with the inaugural flight on 15 December 2018.

This comes after daa awarded the main construction contract for Dublin Airport’s new North Runway to a joint venture comprising Irish firm Roadbridge and Spanish infrastructure company FCC Construcción (FCC).

The contract is for the design and construction of the new 3.1km North Runway at Dublin Airport.

Mobilisation and preparatory site works will begin immediately, and groundworks will start in January. Construction of the new runway is due to be completed in early 2021 and commissioning will then take place.

The contract includes building 306,000sq m of new runway and taxiways, and 6km of new internal airport roads, as well as installing new drainage and pollution controls, 7.5km of electrical cable, and more than 2,000 new runway and taxiway lights.

North Runway will be built at no cost to the State – as daa is not funded by the taxpayer – and will support the creation of 31,200 new Irish jobs and €2.2 billion in additional economic activity by 2043.

“We are delighted to award this key contract to Roadbridge FCC and to move to the next phase of our plans to deliver the new North Runway,” said daa Chief Executive Dalton Philips.

“North Runway is an essential project for Ireland, as it will position the country for future economic growth for many decades to come,” Mr Philips added. “North Runway isn’t Dublin’s new runway; it is Ireland’s new runway and it will boost the performance of Irish tourism, trade and foreign direct investment in a post-Brexit world.”

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