Ethiopian Airlines takes first Boeing 737 MAX 8 | Aircraft Orders & Deliveries content from ATWOnline
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-max-8-449898/
The first Ethiopian 737 Max 8 has been delivered and entered service on 03JUL18.
The aircraft (ET-AVM) has so far done flights to Bujumbura and Nairobi and for now will be deployed interchangeably with the 737-800 fleet.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-avm
You can tell if your flight is supposed to be on the Max if the seat map shows row 34 (standard 737-800s have only 33 rows). The aircraft is in 16/144 configuration as opposed to 16/138 for the standard 737-800s.