The biggest and the most advance aviation academy in Africa, Ethiopian Aviation Academy, a full ICAO TRAINAIR Plus Member and IATA Authorized/Accredited Training Center, recently graduated 262 aviation professionals at a graduation ceremony held at the academy’s Commercial and Cabin Crew Training center.
The graduates include 50 Pilots, 66 Aviation Maintenance Technicians, 120 Cabin crew and 26 Equipment and Facility Maintenance Technicians. Of these graduates,10 major in Industrial Mechanics and 16 in Industrial Electricity.
This round of graduates includes a total of 34 from Cameroun, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea, Togo and Congo, which demonstrates Ethiopian Pan African stance and key role in the development of African aviation.
Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO, Ethiopian Airlines Group, congratulated and welcomed the new graduates to the airline’s dedicated workforce, gave out diplomas to all the graduates, flight wings to graduating pilots and cabin crew and achievement award to graduates with outstanding academic performance.
Mr. Tewolde remarked, “Education is the greatest Equalizer in our world today and Human Resource Development (HRD) is one of the Four Pillars of our Vision 2025 Strategic Growth Plan. In line with this belief we have invested adequately in capacity building in the Ethiopian Aviation Academy, which is the largest and most modern in the continent of Africa. The Academy has been training and graduating the required Aviation Professionals both for Ethiopian Airlines Group and other partner airline around the region. It has the capacity to support our vision 2025 growth plan with adequate aviation professionals and to contribute its share towards the development of Aviation in Africa. While I congratulate today’s graduates for their success, I also wish them the best of success when they join our winning Team of strong work force.”
Presently, the academy trains 2000 aviation professionals every year and it envisages enhancing its intake capacity to 4,000 by 2025.
Victor Gotevbe is the Publisher and Editor in Chief of Diplomatic Watch. He is the Managing Director of Conduit Communications Limited.
