Rest of Africa should envy Ethiopia’s ‘madhouse’

 Bole Airport

The plane, boarders and personnel are seen ahead of first flight restarting air service after 2 decades between Ethiopia and Eritrea, at the International Bole Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 18, 2018. 

Photo credit: AFP

The other day, we had one of those nightmares travellers with onward connecting flights suffer. Our Ethiopian Airlines flight out of the Botswanan capital Gaborone to Addis Ababa was delayed by over an hour.

Ethiopia’s Bole airport is a madhouse; so we figured that, by the time we landed and made our way through the transfer security that is thronged with hundreds and hundreds of people, and then through to the gate, our flight would be a quarter way to Nairobi.