Why Ethiopian Airlines Succeeds Where Every Other African Airline Has Failed!

Most African airlines are broke, grounded, or gone. Ethiopian Airlines just posted $7.6 billion in revenue and is now building a $12.5 billion airport to take on Dubai.This isn't luck. It's eighty years of strategic decisions that every other African carrier failed to make or failed to sustain.Ethiopian Airlines started in 1945 with 5 aircraft and 1 route. Today it flies to 65 African destinations, operates one of the continent's largest cargo networks, trains pilots for other airlines across Africa, and is well on its way to becoming a top 20 global carrier by 2035. And it did all of this in one of the hardest aviation environments on earth.In this episode, we break down exactly how: the geographic advantage of Addis Ababa, the financial discipline that kept Ethiopian profitable through famines, civil wars, and COVID-19, the vertical integration strategy that built an unbreakable competitive moat, and the $12.5 billion Bishoftu airport project that could make Ethiopia the next great hub of global aviation.