Ghana Airways

Ghana Airways
IATA code :	GH
ICAO code :	GHA
Call sign :	GHANA
Founding:	1958
Operation stopped:	2004
Seat:	Accra , Ghana
Home airport :	Kotoka International Airport
Fleet size:	10
Aims:	National and international
Ghana Airways ceased operations in 2004. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Ghana Airways was Ghana's national airline from 1958 to 2004, based in Accra and based at Kotoka International Airport there .

history

The airline was founded on July 4, 1958 and began operations on July 15, 1958. She was to take over the domestic and international service of West African Airways . The domestic routes were discontinued in September 1991.

At the beginning of the 2000s, Ghana Airways chartered an Airbus A330 from the Canadian company SkyService Airlines and a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 from the US American World Airways for operations to North America. At the end of 2003, a DC-10 failed because the company could no longer meet its maintenance obligations. As a result, Ghana Airways had to cancel a large part of its long-haul flights until it acquired a DC-10 from Hawaiian Airlines .

From July 28, 2004, Ghana Airways was banned from flights to the USA because the company was unable to meet the safety requirements. Ticket sales were stopped on August 13, 2004.

Ghana Airways subsequently ceased all activities and was replaced by Ghana International Airlines , a public-private partnership company that has also been insolvent since May 2010 .

Destinations

Ghana Airways flew to North America , Europe , Africa , and the Middle East . Until the end of flight operations, there were direct flights to Hamburg and Düsseldorf in Germany .

fleet

A Bristol Britannia operated by Ghana Airways

Fleet at the end of operations

Before flight operations ceased, the Ghana Airways fleet consisted of ten aircraft:

• 1 Airbus A320-200
• 1 Airbus A330-300
• 7 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
• 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-11

Previously deployed aircraft

A Vickers VC10 from Ghana Airways

Ghana Airways continued u. a. the following aircraft types:

• Antonov An-12
• Bristol Britannia
• De Havilland DH.114 Heron
• Douglas DC-3 / C-47
• Douglas DC-9
• Fokker F28
• Hawker Siddeley HS 748
• Ilyushin Il-18
• Vickers Viscount
• Vickers VC10

Incidents

From 1967 until the cessation of operations in 2004, Ghana Airways suffered six total write-offs of aircraft. One of them killed a person.

• On December 28, 1968, a Ghana Airways VC10 ( aircraft registration number 9G-ABP ) was destroyed along with 13 other planes in an Israeli ground attack at Beirut airport . The aircraft was leased to Middle East Airlines . No persons were harmed in this machine.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Africa)

Web links

Commons : Ghana Airways  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ airfleets.net - Ghana Airways fleet (English) accessed on June 5, 2011.
2. ^ Ulrich Klee and Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966 to 2004.
3. ↑ Accident statistics Ghana Airways , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 13, 2018.
4. ^ Accident report 9G-ABP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 13, 2018.