Ghana Airways
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Ghana Airways was an airline based at Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana. All operations ceased in 2004 and the company was placed into liquidation. Ghana now has a new national airline, Ghana International Airlines, a partnership between the Government and US-based private investors.
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[edit] History
The airline was established on 4 July 1958 and started operations on 15 July 1958, taking over the domestic and international services of West African Airways. Domestic services were discontinued in September 1991.
In the early 2000s, Ghana Airways chartered Airbus A330 aircraft from Canadian operator SkyService Airlines and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft from USA operator World Airways to perform part of its North American operations. In late 2003, it suffered from DC-10 aircraft becoming inoperable due to maintenance obligations and as a result was forced to cancel a large segment of its long-range flights until it purchased two ex-Hawaiian Airlines DC-10 aircraft.
On 28 July 2004, Ghana Airways was barred from flying to and from the United States for safety reasons. [1]. On 13 August 2004, the board of Ghana Airways was sacked and tickets were no longer sold. [2]
The airline ceased all operations and has since been replaced by Ghana International Airlines, a private-public partnership, as the national carrier of Ghana.
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Ghana Airways flew to North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Destinations it served included New York, Washington D.C., London Heathrow, Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf International Airport), Rome, Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos, Abidjan, Monrovia and Freetown.
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An Airbus A330-300 was disposed of in May 2002 and an Airbus A320-200 in March 2004. Previously McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft were used on international routes and Douglas DC-9 aircraft on domestic and regional routes.
