Ethiopian Airlines on Wednesday announced the appointment of a new traffic and sales manager for Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
She is Senait Ataklet, who joined the airline in 2002 and has served the airline in different departments and positions, acquiring extensive experience in the aviation industry.
Ataklet specializes in customer services and sales and holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems, with numerous certificates in customer services and aviation management.
She led the airline’s holiday product development team in Addis Ababa before her posting to Abuja. At Addis Ababa, she made huge contributions to the development of the department, linking the airline and the tourism industry.
Ataklet proved herself as an expert in sales for inbound and outbound trip packages, attracting different types of visitors to new and existing destinations.
“A strong, passionate woman, Senait is an example of the leading African airline’s support for women. Ethiopian Airlines is known for empowering women and she will be the second woman to man the Abuja station,” said an official document sent by the airline to The Africanscholar.
The new traffic and sales manager brings her passion for tourism to the capital of Nigeria hoping to take “Connecting Africa to the world” to a higher level.
Her vision is to “make a difference in development of our nations. She hopes to grow tourism into Nigeria and from Nigeria by combining her experience in tourism and aviation. Ethiopian flies to Abuja and Lagos only since the end of the lockdown. It has been flying to Nigeria since 1960. It is the first airline to bring the B787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350 to Abuja.”
When the Abuja airport was closed for repairs in 2017, it was the only international airline to fly to Kaduna. It became the first airline allowed to fly into the new Abuja Airport when the runway was reopened. Ethiopian Airlines is the most profitable and biggest airline in Africa.
