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Manchester airport launches first direct route to sub-Saharan Africa

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TTG Staff
12 December 2018

Manchester airport launched its first direct route into sub-Saharan Africa this week with a series of promotional fares.

"The relief that we were going home and not going to need to enter hotel quarantine was huge"

Ethiopian will return to Gatwick for the first time since 2006

The new Ethiopian Airlines flight offers travellers onward connections to 58 other destinations via its increasingly busy hub at Addis Ababa.


To promote the routes, flights to the Seychelles, Kilimanjaro and Cape Town are available from £458, £405 and £452 respectively.


The fares are available on bookings made before December 15 for travel between December 28 and June 30.