Ethiopian Airline
 

Guys i want to know something. Have flown several airlines to Jomo Kenyatta international Nairobi and can say the landing was kind ok.Recently i landed with Ethiopian arilne and the landing was very rough It approached the runway and landed heavily with a speed i have never experienced with another airline and the brakes were applied like emergency brakes as we approached the end of the runway.Pax were looking at each other like this is our day.Any idea on why it happened?am a frequent flyer despite the phobia of flying

This happens at times , hot weather , speed etc . Happened to me with Emirates

Industrial action by the Lift Pixies?

Perhaps it was thronomister failure.

Ethiopian Airlines does this all the time. I have actually stopped flying with them. They could be cheaper than most airlines but like you say the landings are rather scary

Hear salaries are not that great either, makes you wonder how the pilots survive, especially the lower echelons. :rolleyes:

Cost of living is pretty low in Ethiopia IF you're a native.

You're taking the cost of living where you are, which is likely 1st World, and applying that to ADD and ET's salary. Guarantee you the locals can get by on a much much less.

I've lived in DRC for 3.5 years. Not that I'd want to, but for $1000/month I could have a pretty decent life, including housing, food, etc.....

This sort of stuffs happen everywhere in most of the airlines,KQ had that reputation too few years back especially when they train young guys with low experience,so it's really not a big big deal.As for the pay it's proportional to the cost of living in Ethiopia altough i agree it should be scaled to the standard worldwide but Ethiopian pilots are highly professionals and well trained pilots

For reasons which I cannot divulge, I have been given a free ticket on Ethiopian Airlines for a trip home and back. Suffice to say I won't be using it, and that decision was made long before I read this posting.

The standard of living in Ethiopia has greatly increased in the last year and its actually affecting the locals more than the foreigners. Ethiopian is losing pilots as fast as it can train them so the standards will never be that great until they look at the pilot salaries

Are you kidding me? Ethiopian is one of the best airlines in Africa.

Ethiopian have an excellent engineering, operational and safety record stretching back to 1948 and anybody refusing a ticket on them for supposed safety reasons is making a big mistake. They are probably the best operator in Africa,- and that includes SAA. Landings into Nairobi by all airlines are often fast as required by its altitude and , often, temperatures so nothing to worry about on that score. It is also not a place for elegant landings if it is desired to exit the runway via the last turnoff onto the taxiway rather than continue to the end , turn around and backtrack which costs time and may inconvenience following traffic.

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Hi!

As a Passenger, inside a plane, you have NO IDEA if the landing was "good" or "bad".

For instance, you could have a very smooth touchdown and a smooth deceleration, but the pilots landed outside the landing zone (first 1000m) of the runway, which is not standard, and makes the landing less safe, as you have shortened the runway available.

On the other hand, you could have a very bumby and erratic approach, and then a VERY hard landing, and it could have been the most safe landing possible, considering the weather conditions.

You could have a very sharp deceleration, which is much safer than a gentle one, when the runway is limited.

If you taxi from the runway to the gate, then your landing was successful.

You land, or you don't land. My goal is to land after every takeoff.

cliff
KDFW

I too have suffered from EABLS (Ethiopian Airlines Bumpy Landing Syndrome).

Does this affect my future flight plans?

No: Ethiopian are IOSA certified and that's good enough for this SLF.

living in Addis...
 

before you decide to move to Addis, you better check how housing is expensive! BASIC appartment - 1 realllllly small bedroom for 2000$ Pollution is terrible, and forget about having your own car. Taxes are just stupid 240% decreasing... e.g. a basic Hyundai costs 50.000$

not true. Life is cheap.

Unless you were a passenger on the Beirut-Addis flight this morning:

Dont jump to conclusions,crashes and safety policies are two different things.
They sometimes don't go hand in hand.

There are airlines with best safety practices,that still fall out of the sky,and a number of dubious operators with no crash yet.

recent examples are BA777/Airfrance A330/KENYA AIRWAYS,who have all had major crashes in recent times,but i would fly them anyday,including ETHIOPIAN.

A hard landing is not nessesarily an unsafe landing.
 

Sadly enough we pilots are judged by LANDINGS.
We fly them for say 6hrs non stop, dodge thunderstorms, look for tailwinds at levels, slow down to minimum turbulence speed for them not to be shaken all over, manage the FMS well so that we do not wind up in tokyo instead of seoul, struggle to stay awake...all this is immaterial to MOST pax.
Even 'good' pilots make hard landings too.
Okay, stop flying ET...
Do you know that sometimes planes land THEMSELVES?..:E