Ethiopian Aviation Academy, the largest aviation academy in Africa, has announced that it has graduated 24 pilots, 96 aviation maintenance technicians, 37 cabin crew and 44 marketing professionals at a ceremony held at Ethiopian headquarters recently. The graduates include nationals from Rwanda. The training has equipped the graduates with sufficient theoretical and practical knowledge to qualify them in their career as aviation professionals.
On the occasion, group CEO, Tewolde GebreMariam congratulated the new graduates and welcomed them to the airline’s fast growing and dedicated workforce, gave out diplomas to all the graduates, flight wings to graduating pilots, cabin crew and achievement awards to graduates with outstanding academic performance.
Tewolde said, “Ethiopian Aviation Academy is the bedrock of the airline’s success. Self-sufficiency in training of all aviation services expertise right from the inception of our business has been one of the major success factors of Ethiopian Airlines. That is why we have invested huge amount of time, energy and money for the expansion of our aviation academy to meet the demand for trained aviation expertise of the 21st century and to set the standard in high-level quality education demanded by the aviation profession.”
He added, “We will continue to invest in the academy to scale up its capacity, both in scope and scale, not only to meet our internal demand for more than 17,000 employees envisaged in our vision 2025, but also to address the critical shortage of trained and qualified aviation professionals prevailing in the continent of Africa. Shortage of trained and skilled human power is one of the major reasons why our continent is lagging behind in all measurements of development in the civil aviation sector.”