Thread: Help to Ethiopia

Give me the dates you have in mind and I'll check with ET for you. Bear in mind that the flight to IAD stops in FCO. So as always contingencies are in order. You may want to look into connecting via a European city where they don't require transit visas for Ethiopian citizens. You'll just be staying in the transit zone and would have a bigger choice of flights/carriers to you arrival city in the US. Congratulations and all the best with your family

Frapos,

Thanks so much for your willingness to help. Our court date, (the date of the adoption finalization if everything goes well.) After that, it'll be a couple of weeks before we know our embassy date. (That's when we get the visa for him.) We are thinking sometime at the beginning of March. If you would not mind, I'll ask you for loads at that time.
As for the other connecting cities, I have not found any European city that will allow him to transit without a visa. We are still exploring Dubai and Tel Aviv. I have contacted both embassies, but have not heard back from them. Germany did respond and stated it would take 24 hours. That would necessitate us staying in Addis through the weekend. We would really like to head home as soon as possible. If you know of another EU city where a transit visa is NOT required, PLEASE let us know.
thanks so much.

Do you know on Delta's ATL - DXB flight, if US pass riders are required to get a pre-arranged visa since they do not have confirmed seats?

We are trying to pick a transit city where we will have several options of getting on. Looks like London has 2 daily flights to Addis and a ton of flights to Dubai. (DXB has 3 daily flights to ADD) Our concern came when my wife read that unconfirmed seats require a visa or a purchase. Then we noticed that it was a general advisory not exclusive to Dubai. I've looked at loads with KLM and they're pretty full. LH only has flights to ADD on certain days. I think LHR is our best bet.

I'll be bugging everybody for more concrete loads when we get closer to going. The adoption has been finalized and we're waiting on our Embassy date. We think it'll be the first week of March.