Inside Bishoftu | Ethiopia's $12.5B Airport and the Race for African Aviation
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Every day, African travelers get routed through Dubai, Istanbul, or Doha just to fly from one African city to another — and the Middle East has profited from that detour for decades. Ethiopia is betting $12.5 billion that this ends here. 40 kilometers south of Addis Ababa, in the fields of Bishoftu, Ethiopian Airlines and the Ethiopian government are building what's designed to become one of the ten busiest airports on Earth: four runways rated for the Airbus A380, capacity for 100 million passengers a year by 2040, and an aerotropolis built to turn Ethiopia into Africa's aviation superpower. #Bishoftu #EthiopianAirlines #BishoftuAirport #AfricanAviation #AddisAbaba #Aerotropolis #AfricanEconomy #AviationNews
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