It was celebration on Sunday at Chennai airport when Tamil Nadu finally got one of its most awaited air links — a direct flight to Africa.
At 8.42 a.m., an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 was spotted decelerating from the St. Thomas Mount runway end to turn into Taxiway Golf for a water cannon salute. For the 187 passengers on flight ET692 (Addis Ababa-Chennai), who deplaned at Gate 14 at the international terminal, the six-hour flight from the Ethiopian capital met their expectations.
“It was good,” said a Tamil family from Abuja, Nigeria, visiting their home city after three years. For another Indian family, “It was the quickest flight here.”
