Robbie COREY-BOULET Agence-France Presse29 September 2020 Six months since the coronavirus pandemic upended the global airline industry, Ethiopian Airlines is facing a heavy toll: more than $1 billion in lost revenue, to say nothing of 850 infected employees. Yet Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of the state-owned airline and jewel of Ethiopia’s economy, maintains the situation would have been far worse if it had not rapidly adapted to a 90 percent drop in international passenger traffic. Africa’s largest carrier pivoted in March to meet surging demand for air freight, repurposing 45 passenger jets in order to build out its cargo fleet. “We
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