Ethiopian Airlines will operate flights from Addis Ababa to Chicago, effective June 9.

Flight ET 0510 will depart Addis Ababa at 22h15 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving in Dublin at 04h25 the next day. The flight will depart Dublin at 05h25 and arrive in Chicago at 07h55. Return flight ET 0511 will depart Chicago at 09h55 on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, and arrive in Addis Ababa at 07h40 the next day.

Tewolde GebreMariam, group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, said: “Chicago will be our fourth destination in the US and our seventh in the Americas. It is the third-biggest city in the US and one of the most important global aviation hubs. We will be filling a critical air connectivity vacuum as our flights will be the only direct service between Chicago and Africa.”

The route will be operated with a Boeing 787.

Ethiopian Airlines operates numerous southern and east African routes, including Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Axum (Ethiopia), Bahirdar (Ethiopia),  Blantyre (Malawi), Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), Cape Town (SA), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Dire Dawa (Ethiopia), Entebbe (Uganda), Gambela (Ethiopia), Gondar (Ethiopia), Harare (Zimbabwe), Jimma (Ethiopia), Johannesburg (SA), Kigali (Rwanda), Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Kinshasa (DRC), Lalibela (Ethiopia), Lilongwe (Malawi), Luanda (Angola), Lubumbashi (DRC), Lusaka (Zambia), Maputo (Mozambique), Mombasa (Kenya), Nairobi (Kenya), Ndola (Zambia), Pointe Noire (Republic of the Congo), Seychelles, and Zanzibar.