Ethiopian Airlines opens the first phase of its new business class or Cloud Nine lounge at its main hub, Addis Abeba Bole International Airport, with modern facilities and amenities comfortable for premium travelers.

The brand new lounge gives premium travelers with the best possible on-ground experience while waiting for their flights.

The unveiling new Cloud Nine lounge is the first of the three phase expansions. When fully completed, it will be three times bigger than the existing one. It has a quiet corner with sleeping cots, individual reading lamps, massage chairs and an internet corner.

Our new Cloud Nine lounge will enable us to greatly enhance our premium passengers' on-ground facilities and amenities that will make their airport departure and transit time as enjoyable as possible, according to Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of the Ethiopian Airlines.

The airlines, which are one of the fasting growing airlines in Africa, made its first international flight to Cairo in 1946.