Ethiopian Airlines will take four A350-1000 twinjets, having confirmed the conversion of outstanding orders for the -900 variant.
The carrier’s chief executive Mesfin Tasew had said during the Farnborough air show on 20 July that Ethiopian was in the “final stage” of negotiations to take the larger version of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered widebody for the first time.
With the new arrangement in place, Ethiopian now has four -1000s and two -900s outstanding from an original…