{"id":427917,"date":"2026-05-14T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ethiopian-airlines-airbus-a220-regional\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:50:45","slug":"a220-newcomer-ethiopian-eyes-airbus-smallest-narrowbody-for-regional-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=427917","title":{"rendered":"A220 Newcomer: Ethiopian Eyes Airbus&#8217; Smallest Narrowbody For Regional Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#8217;s largest carrier, <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>, is reportedly eyeing the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525470\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A220<\/span><\/span> for its network expansion within the region. With the airline currently in talks with the manufacturer, it is worth understanding how the regional jet would fit in well within the airline&#8217;s fleet and how it would influence Ethiopian&#8217;s existing network and future growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the order is to come into fruition, the A220 would complement the carrier&#8217;s 737 operations rather than replace them.<\/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":[573,426,434,396,1356,16569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-airbus","category-airbus-a220","category-aircraft","category-ethiopian-airlines","category-manufacturers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427917","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=427917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427918,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427917\/revisions\/427918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}