Ethiopian Airways Removes Nigerian Air Portray from Plane, Resumes Carrying Passengers, Dwell Tracker Reveals

• Ethiopian Airways has eliminated Nigeria Air branding from its plane and resumed common operations.
• The plane owned by Ethiopian Airways, has returned to the airline after partially representing Nigeria Air
• The explanations behind the momentary branding and subsequent elimination stay undisclosed by the Ethiopian Airways and Nigerian authorities

Ethiopian Airways has eliminated the Nigeria Air portray from the plane that was initially unveiled as a part of Nigeria Air’s fleet.

In response to a reside tracker, Ethiopian Airways is now utilizing the identical plane for its common operations.

The plane, a Boeing 737-800 which has registration Quantity ET-APL, Mode S Q4005C, and serial quantity: 40965/4075, was repainted and rebranded to characterize Nigeria Air on the request of Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika.

Nevertheless, it has since been returned to Ethiopian Airways, its authentic proprietor.

The place is Nigeria Plane

Flight information from the reside tracker present that as at Wednesday, March 30, 2023 afternoon, the plane departed from Addis Ababa and flew to Mogadishu.

Later that night, it made a return flight again to Addis Ababa.

Unbiased journalist David Hundeyin introduced consideration to the flight tracker through his Twitter deal with, noting that the Nigeria Air plane had obtained a fast elimination of its new branding and was again in service on its typical Addis Ababa-Mogadishu route.

legit. ng had beforehand reported on the Nigeria Air airplane’s return to Ethiopia based mostly on data from the flight reside tracker, ‘flightradar24.com’.

The tracker additionally confirmed the plane’s relocation from Nigeria again to Ethiopia.

Particulars concerning the plane

Investigations into the plane’s historical past revealed that it has been in service for about 11 years.

Its first flight was performed on June 22, 2012, underneath Ethiopian Airways. It later operated underneath the identify Malawi Airways from February 16, 2014, earlier than being launched again to Ethiopian Airways on August 12, 2015.

Regardless of the change in colours, the possession of the plane stays with Ethiopian Airways.

Airline to weigh passengers earlier than they board plane

In the meantime, in one other report, Air New Zealand has determined to weigh passengers boarding its plane.

This system goals to assemble weight load and distribute information for secure and environment friendly plane operations.

Passengers’ privateness is protected, because the collected information is made nameless, and there aren’t any seen shows of particular person weights.

Supply: Legit.ng