Airports
Ethiopia Prepares to Build Major Hub Airport for Africa
A new airport development for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa could take until around 2024 to build.
Tewodros Dawit, CEO of Ethiopian Airports Enterprise, said the new Addis Ababa Airport could rival developments in Dubai. (Photo: Kaleyesus Bekele)
Tewodros Dawit, CEO of Ethiopian Airports Enterprise, said the new Addis Ababa Airport could rival developments in Dubai. (Photo: Kaleyesus Bekele)

Ethiopia’s transport ministry is finalizing plans to start building a new airport for the capital Addis Ababa in 2016. The facility, which is expected to take eight years to build at a cost of up to around $4 billion, is intended as a major new hub airport for African air transport, according to Ethiopian transport minister Workneh Gebeyehu. In late September, he told the Airport, Infrastructures and MRO conference in Addis Ababa that the development will feature four runways and will have capacity for more than 100 million passengers per year.