Ethiopian Airlines has deployed its newest aircraft and Africa's first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its service to India’s capital and metropolitan city of Delhi marking the aircraft's first revenue flight.

The brand new Boeing 787-9 joined the airline’s youngest and most modern operating fleet on October 27, 2017 following a delivery flight from Boeing’s Everett factory in Washington, USA.

The Dreamliner fleet which is an integration of design and technology with unique features of biggest windows in the sky, high ceiling, less noise, distinctive lighting, and higher air humidity, has further redefined passengers’ travel experience on board Ethiopian.

The Boeing 787-9 is 20 feet or 6 meters longer than the Boeing 787-8 and has more passenger capacity with 315 seats in Ethiopian Airlines configuration.

It is to be recalled that Ethiopian has named one of its twenty Boeing 787-8 fleet after India’s greatest tourist attraction, Taj Mahal.

Ethiopian presence in India dates back to the 1970’s and currently operates 29 weekly scheduled passenger and cargo flights to India’s major cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad.

Ethiopian Airlines is the fastest growing Airline in Africa. In its seventy plus years of operation, it has become one of the continent’s leading carriers, unrivalled in efficiency and operational success.

It currently flies to more than 100 international passenger and cargo destinations in 5 continents, out of which 55 are in Africa.