Ghana is expected to launch its new airline in two months’ time.
Aviation Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Accra at Aviations Ministry’s mid-year performance conference.
He said the Home-Based Carrier would
connect various African cities with affordable airfares in order to make Ghana a sub-regional hub.
He noted that Ghana’s quest to become West Africa’s aviation hub was on course.
According to him, the stakeholders in the Home-Based Carrier are coming on board with expertise, professionalism and well-grounded experience that will add value to the airline and champion the course of socio-economic growth in Ghana.
Mr. Kofi Adda continued by congratulating sector agencies for attaining Africa’s highest score in the recent ICAO audit, with 89.89 percent.
“This should serve as a motivation to continue with hard work and demonstrate a high level of professionalism,” Adda said.
According to Adda, with limited government revenue, the role of the private sector would remain increasingly important.
“It is only prudent that we as a sector become very innovative in our way of doing government business to attract the needed capital for the growth of the aviation industry and to create the needed jobs for Ghanaians,” he said.
The conference seeks to among other things address strategies on how to fully utilize the benefits of having Ghana as host to the African Continental Free Trade Headquarters.
Mr. Kofi Adda said “this undoubtably has significant impact to our aviation hub agenda and the making of Ghana as a destination of choice for all travelers.”
Source: Daily Guide
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Misplaced priorities if you ask me. Its not just about the pride of having a national airline but performance and in a particularly tricky industry a national airline although sounds great it not probably the best course of action and direction for us right now.
These airlines have been costing Ghana a lot of money. Intact, Ghana has been incurring losses in this business. The politicians behind benefit from the assets being sold as a result if the losses. They buy these assets cheaply. I am therefore not happy about this investment on the part of Ghana. In case if any loss, Mr Adda and his assistants should be held by their necks because I know this us a loss making venture to benefit Adda and co. I rest my case. We as Ghanaians should speak against this wrong investment.