Bole International Airport (IATA: ADD, ICAO: HAAB) serves the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Formerly known as Haile Selassie I International airport, it is the main hub of Ethiopian Airlines. The national airline has service to destinations in Ethiopia and throughout the African continent, as well as nonstop service to Asia, Europe, and North America. Bole International is also served by Lufthansa, Sudan Airways, British Airways, and recently, KLM. It is also one of the main pilot training and aircraft maintenance centers in Africa. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Map of Ethiopia highlighting Addis Ababa (in red). ... Ethiopian Airlines is the national airline of Ethiopia. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Asia is the largest and most populous region or continent depending on the definition. ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to some dispute as to Europes actual borders. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... It has been suggested that Miles and More be merged into this article or section. ... Sudan Airways is the national airline of Sudan. ... For the 1930s airline of similar name see British Airways Ltd British Airways (LSE: BAY, NYSE: BAB) is the largest airline of the United Kingdom. ... KLM (in full: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English: Royal Dutch Airlines) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before its (agreed) take-over by Air France, KLM was the national airline of the Netherlands. ...

In 2003, a new international passenger terminal opened, one of the largest on the continent. This accompanied the completion of a new 3800m runway.

The airport is located near the Bole neighborhood in the southeastern part of Addis Ababa.

In 2004, the airport served 1,583,383 passengers.

Airlines

• British Airways operated by BMED (Alexandria-Borg El Arab, London-Heathrow)
• Daallo Airlines (Hargeisa)
• EgyptAir (Cairo)
• Emirates (Dubai, Entebbe)
• Ethiopian Airlines (Abijan, Accra, Amsterdam, Arba Minch, Asosa, Axum, Bahir Dar, Bamako, Bangkok, Beica, Beijing, Beirut, Brazzaville, Bujumbura, Cairo, Dar es Salaam, Dembidolo, Dessie, Dijouti, Dire Dawa, Douala, Dubai, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Gambela, Gode, Gore, Guangzhou, Harare, Hargeisa, Hong Kong, Inda Selassie, Jeddah, Jijiga, Jimma, Jinka, Johannesburg, Kabri Dar, Khartoum, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Kinshasa, Lagos, Lalibela, Lilongwe, Lome, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Luanda, Lusaka, Mekane Selam, Mek'ele, Mizan Teferi, Mumbai, Nairobi, Ndjamena, New Delhi, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Shilavo, Stockholm, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tippi, Washington-Dulles)
• Kenya Airways (Djibouti, Nairobi)
• KLM (Amsterdam, Khartoum)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Khartoum)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah)
• South African Airways (Johannesburg - codeshared with Ethiopian)
• Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
• United Airlines (Frankfurt - codeshared with Lufthansa)
• Yemenia (Sanaa)