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https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ETH363

Seems it's a multi-leg flight. I wonder how the people who wanted to disembark/get on at DIR felt...

I think ultimate in this case means the airport where they finally landed.

e.g, if you planned to go to Alices house, then Bobs house but Bob wasn't home so you went to Eves house.

Your ultimate destination was Eves house.

Was my interpretation as well. In this case ultimate just means "where they ended up".

I think it's more like you plan to sleep over at Eve's house, but visit Bob on the way. As you drive to Bobs house, you run into a huge forest fire, so you turn back and go to Eve's - which was always your ultimate destination, but in this case you failed to visit Bob. (Also - Addis Ababa is Ethiopian's hub - so it makes sense for regional flights with connecting legs to terminate there)

Don't think so: the wording is consistent with a flight that was intending to make an intermediate stop, but cancelled it because of an inability to land and went on to their final destination directly.