﻿How ghana plans to lead africa in aviation Picture yourself soaring over West Africa, in the
most comfortable flight you’ve ever experienced. Guess what airline you are using? It's Ghana’s
Newly Dominant Airline which just became a global sensation
or let’s just say we hope it really does happen.
Ghana is one of the fastest growing nations in the world right now,
due in part to the exceptional leadership of President Nana Akufo Addo, love that man… his
government has made numerous strides at expanding development in the country
and Ghana is now growing exponentially and truly making an impact on the global stage.
But there’s a problem, Ghana’s airliner Ghana Airways has not been operational since 2004,
how is a nation without a flagged airliner supposed to lead in the 21st century and benefit
from the fourth industrial revolution? To tackle this problem, The Republic of
Ghana has recently announced that they plan to relaunch a national airline.
But how are they going to do it exactly and where will all that money come from? Well that’s why you
have us, think rich Africa to help calm the noise and simply yet elaborately give you the details
and all the nuances about African projects, entrepreneurship, finance and infrastructure.
So lets imagine for a second that you’re a Ghanaian government official and you want to
build an airliner but you know that bringing China into this is, a bad idea and you don’t
want to have a similar fate with other gullible African countries like kenya or Malawi and you
want to give china the middle finger and prove some African countries aren’t as gullible.
What do you do? Well apparently Kenya and Malawi aren’t as savvy as you are because
you do what no other African country is willing to do, you take the difficult route and make risky
but highly rewarding investments in your own economy instead of falling on the lap of china
and getting locked in a debt trap. This nation is truly remarkable they took their business
straight to Boeing and asked Egypt air if they would help as well and luckily Egypt is a fan of
giving china the middle finger and gladly joined in on the venture. Ghana and Boeing have signed
a memorandum of understanding for 3 Boeing 787 Dreamliners at a least price of $800 million.
Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading provider of commercial airplanes,
defense, space and security systems, and global services. As the top US exporter,
the company supports commercial and government customers in more than 150 countries.
Boeing employs more than 150,000 people world wide and leverages the talents of a global supplier
base. Building on a legacy of technology and innovation, deliver for it’s customers
and invest in its people and future growth. Ghana is set change the aviation game in Africa. Kotoka
International Airport is an international airport in Accra, the capital city of Ghana the airport is
operated by Ghana Airports company limited (GACL), which which has it’s offices on the airport
property. It is the sole international airport in Ghana. Kotoka International Airport(KIA), was
originally a military airport used by the British Royal Force during World War II in 1946.
The facility was handed over to civilian authorities after a successful pull out by
the military in response to globalization and the growing demand for air travel at the time,
a development project was launched to reconfigure the structure into a terminal building in 1956.
The airport occupies 1610 acres (651 hectares) within the city of accra
and is about 10 kilometers from the city center. the plan is for accra ghana’s buzzing capital to
be used as a hub for destinations in west Africa and future routes said to include; Europe, North
America and Asia with a long term goal of opening the airline to private investments an operation
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The memorandum was officially signed at the Dubai Air Show for the three Dreamliner aircrafts.
Ghana’s honourable minister of aviation Joseph Kofi Adda has issued a statement
saying he believes the growing demand for air travel to and from Ghana with the aid
of these aircrafts will give Ghana an efficient and flexible means to launch a regional network
and eventually serve international destinations in the future the 787 has an
excellent reputation for its reputation for its operational performance, fuel efficiency and of
course their passenger experience. //comments below
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Now you might be wondering why exactly Ghana lost their airliner in the first place
and why we keep talking about them redeeming or revitalizing their airline
to answer this lets take a short trip back in time about 18 years way back to july of 2004
when the United states department of transportation banned the airline from
operating flights into or out of the United states. Whilst investigations were on the
way that the airline had ignored warnings related to the grounding out of date aircraft
and that the airline had also been operating on an out of date liscence. As a result, the airline
was forced to cancel two weekly flights to JFK international airport and two weekly flights to
Baltimore Washington international airport according to the spokesman of the US DOT,
the airline had utilized an aircraft which the federal aviation administration had ordered to be
grounded on flights to New York city and Baltimore on the 24th and 26th of july respectively.
The banning led to the Ghana airways board being sacked by the government and the government
taking over full control of the airline, the then Ghanaian presidential chief of staff has
outlined that the measures were necessary in order to prevent further damage coming into the national
airline he also stated that the government would insure that the airline will be turned around.
The comments followed on from an incident the week previous when angry passengers
to took a Ghana airways pilot hostage at kotoka international airport after they had waited for
some days for their flights on the airline. In the after math of the incident president
John Kufuor held emergency meetings with officials from the airline and police.
It was reported in 2005 that Ethiopian airlines was negotiating with the government in accra
to help keep Ghana airways a float in a deal that would have seen the government keeping a 25%
share in the airline with 40% being sold off to the Ethiopian airline and Ghana
international airlines. Unable to keep up with its debt repayments and due to the government
refusal to pump more money into the airline. Ghana airways was liquidated in june 2005.
In December 2008 the government released about $2.3 million to the liquidator to
pay the final installment in severance claims to ex employees of Ghana airways.
This this brought the total amount paid out to employees of the airline to around $7 million.
As mentioned earlier the Boeing 787 is part of a family of 3 aircrafts that offer long ranges
and unmatched fuel efficiency in the 200 to 350 seat market. The 787 can carry over 300 passengers
and can fly upto 7700 nortical miles, while reducing fuel use and emissions by around 20 to
50% compared to older aircrafts. Since entering service in 2011 the 787 family has enabled the
opening of more than 250 new point to point routes and saved $45 billion worth of fuel.
There are more than 1600 commercial flights on the 787 Dreamliner this means that somewhere
around the world a 787 Dreamliner takes off every 60 seconds and more than 400 million passengers
have flown on these planes. The chairman of Ghana airways is Charles Wereko Brobbery and technical
support will be provided by Egyptair and Boeing. The Ghanaian cabinet has granted policy approval
for establishing a new flag carrier with specific partner participation, delivering his state of the
nation Address on March 1st 2021, president Nana Akufo Addo made a brief mention in this regard.
Egypt air has confirmed that it has agreed to invest an initial $100 billion
in Ghana’s new national carrier and to initially supply four unidentified aircrafts, presumably
narrow bodies. The north African carrier had reportedly angled for a 70% stake in the startup.
It’s also important to note here that Ghana has not had a flag carrier since may of 2010, when
Ghana international airlines GH Acrra collapsed after the governments redrawal of funding.
The flagship was owned by the Ghana government which had a 70% stake in the venture and the US
consortium which owned 30%. Kotoka international airport has been renovated and expanded to include
an additional terminal meanwhile, president Akufo Addo said the construction of the second and third
phases of Kumasi, the second Phase of kumali and the rehabilitation of Sunyani airport were all
progressing steadily. He said a decision on the citing of a proposed airport in the central and
western regions was imminent. With all these advancements and following the economic chart
of Ghana right now one can really say the sky is merely their starting point. Thanks for watching
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