{"id":264445,"date":"2025-08-09T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sanction-evasion-ethiopian-airlines-denies-wet-lease-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:15:17","slug":"sanction-evasion-plan-foiled-ethiopian-airlines-denies-aircraft-wet-lease-deal-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264445","title":{"rendered":"Sanction Evasion Plan Foiled: Ethiopian Airlines Denies Aircraft Wet-Lease Deal With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I reported that the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) had <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/russia-latest-plan-new-aircraft-western-sanctions-africa-largest-airline\/\" >published content on social media providing some details from a discussion with Russia<\/a> that could involve a wet-lease deal with <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255708\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ethiopian-airlines\/\"  >Ethiopian Airlines<\/a><\/span> (ET). Crucially, Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; fleet is modern and composed of Western-made jets that Russia no longer has access to given US and EU sanctions. After my report came out, the ECAA deleted the post. It seems that information might not have been theirs to share. <strong>Someone messed up.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising revelation sparked controversy for this African airline giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,396,398,1356,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-ethiopian-airlines","category-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A surprising revelation sparked controversy for this African airline giant.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Guest authors\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"1EIWGZ5FoylKQrO3pqls-2hXlDXKIP1lffdWZCVV0V4\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264445\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"VibeWire Magazine - 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