{"id":338755,"date":"2025-12-28T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-for-africa-ethiopian-airlines-airbus-a350-strip-paint\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:44:41","slug":"a-first-for-africa-ethiopian-airlines-rolls-out-airbus-a350-strip-and-paint-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=338755","title":{"rendered":"A First For Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Rolls Out Airbus A350 Strip-And-Paint Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255964\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/star-alliance\/\"  >Star Alliance<\/a><\/span> member, and one of the largest airlines in the continent of Africa, <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> has achieved a monumental moment, becoming the first to o<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-aircraft-are-painted\/\" >ffer a full strip and paint programme<\/a> in Africa for two of the airline&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739536\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-900\/\"  >Airbus A350-900<\/a><\/span>. As announced on December 26, the airline has become the first in Africa to offer such a service, which significantly advances the airline&#8217;s aim for operational excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines cements its position as the continent&#8217;s leading MRO service provider.<\/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":[573,396,11270,1373,1356,16569,3149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-painting","category-ethiopia","category-ethiopian-airlines","category-manufacturers","category-mro-operations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338789,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338755\/revisions\/338789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}