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.

Contents 1 Code data 2 History 3 Services 3.1 Africa 3.2 Asia 3.3 Europe 3.4 North America 4 Fleet 5 External links

[edit] Code data

• IATA Code: GH
• ICAO Code: GHA
• Callsign: GHANA

[edit] History

The airline was established on 4 July 1958 and started operations on 15 July 1958, taking over the Ghana-based domestic and international services of West African Airways Corporation. 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The airline ceased all operations and has since been replaced by Ghana International Airlines, a private-public partnership, as the national carrier of Ghana.

[edit] Services

Ghana Airways flew to North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Destinations it served included:

[edit] Africa

[3]

• Benin
  • Cotonou [4]
• Burkina Faso
  • Ouagadougou [5]
• Cameroon
  • Douala [6]
• Canary Islands (Spain)
  • Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
• Côte d'Ivoire
  • Abidjan [7]
• Egypt
  • Cairo [8]
• The Gambia
  • Banjul (formerly Bathurst) [9] [10] [11]
• Ghana
  • Accra (Kotoka International Airport) Hub [12]
  • Kumasi [13]
• Guinea
  • Conakry [14] [15] [16]
• Liberia
  • Monrovia [17]
  • Robertsport [18]
• Mali
  • Bamako [19]
• Nigeria
  • Lagos [20]
• Senegal
  • Dakar [21] [22]
• Sierra Leone
  • Freetown [23] [24]
• South Africa
  • Johannesburg [25]
• Togo
  • Lomé [26]
• Zimbabwe
  • Harare [27]

In addition, Ghana Airways planned to fly to the following destinations [28]:

• Angola
  • Luanda
• Ethiopia
  • Addis Ababa
• Niger
  • Niamey
• Zambia
  • Lusaka

[edit] Asia

• Lebanon
  • Beirut [29]

Ghana Airways planned to re-start Beirut and fly to Dubai, United Arab Emirates [30].

[edit] Europe

• United Kingdom
  • London [31] [32](Heathrow Airport [33])
• Germany
  • Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf International Airport) [34] [35]
• Italy
  • Rome [36] [37] [38]
• Switzerland
  • Zurich [39]

[edit] North America

[40]

• United States
  • New York City (John F. Kennedy International Airport) [41] [42]
  • Baltimore/Washington D.C. (Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport)

In addition, Ghana Airways planned to develop a nonstop Atlanta, Georgia, United States to Accra flight and a Toronto, Ontario, Canada flight to Accra via Dakar [43].

[edit] Fleet

The first service was operated using a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. The Stratocruisers were replaced by Bristol Britannias. Then in the early 1960s the airline acquired the Ilyushin Il-18, but those were returned because they were not economical to operate. They were replaced with the Vickers VC10 and for domestic routes the BAe HS.748. From 1983 the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft were used on international routes and DC-9-51 aircraft and the Fokker F27-600 on domestic and regional routes. Next came the Airbus A330-300 which was disposed of in May 2002 and an Airbus A320-200 in March 2004.

[edit] External links

• Ghana Airways official website at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine