I agree with you. Why invest in something that is not sustainable. Aside from the needless fiscal constraints on the budget, do we have the market size to capture the benefits? Or is this just another "free project" to help t ... read full comment
I agree with you. Why invest in something that is not sustainable. Aside from the needless fiscal constraints on the budget, do we have the market size to capture the benefits? Or is this just another "free project" to help the masses?
TROISKI 7 years ago
Nice read. our country definitely is on the path of destruction because of misplaced priorities. Needless free shs and white elephant ghana airways
Nice read. our country definitely is on the path of destruction because of misplaced priorities. Needless free shs and white elephant ghana airways
NO-NONSENSE 7 years ago
WE CANNOT run anything efficiently.
Contract a FOREIGN COMPANY to run Ghana Airways and we may make a moderate gain. Ghanaman will run EVERYTHING DOWN
WE CANNOT run anything efficiently.
Contract a FOREIGN COMPANY to run Ghana Airways and we may make a moderate gain. Ghanaman will run EVERYTHING DOWN
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
Our thanks to Dr. Henry Adobor for stating a position more aligned with reality, need, and commonsense.
At this point, it is important to look at the PricewaterhouseCoopers with the same level of caution as Charles Takyi B ... read full comment
Our thanks to Dr. Henry Adobor for stating a position more aligned with reality, need, and commonsense.
At this point, it is important to look at the PricewaterhouseCoopers with the same level of caution as Charles Takyi Boadu did back in 2010 with respect to the "liquidation of the defunct Ghana Airways (Ghanair)".
READ: Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
19 FEBRUARY 2010
""Ghanair Deal Raises More Questions
By Charles Takyi Boadu
An aviation expert, Duke Odiasempa, who has petitioned the Minister of Transport, Mike Hammah, to take a second look at the
liquidation of the defunct Ghana Airways (Ghanair), is not surprised about the continuous silence of transaction advisers,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), on the deal.
From the onset, the Aviation expert says PriceWaterhouseCoopers had created the impression that its report was waterproof, and gave
orders as to how it should be appropriated, stressing that it was ludicrous for PWC to direct that the report should only be used by the
official liquidator? the Registrar General.""
WE SAY:
If this "thing" occurs, it would be about the only "thing" Akufo Addo and his government "continued" that was proposed and started by Mahama and his NDC party.
A Ghana airline merely to make Kotoka Airport an international hub for airline passenger travel is not good enough reason.
The minister ought to focus on a Ghana National Airport Master Plan that brings up to standards all the various airports in the country:
-- Runways
-- Taxiway
-- Lighting
-- Marking
-- Equipment
-- Safety
-- Encroachment Management
Support Services
-- Benefits to local communities
-- Alignment/complementing Ghana Emergency Program; Tourism (Local/Regional/National).
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Kwame Joe 7 years ago
Stop this fast and loose antic of your idiotic loose weight lying through teeth.
Stop this fast and loose antic of your idiotic loose weight lying through teeth.
ghanaman 7 years ago
Yes, the author is right: reason must trump passion and patriotism. When the now Superminister Osafo Marfo visited Hamburg in 2002 he was all out against the idea of a revival of Ghana Airways, indeed against any talk of a na ... read full comment
Yes, the author is right: reason must trump passion and patriotism. When the now Superminister Osafo Marfo visited Hamburg in 2002 he was all out against the idea of a revival of Ghana Airways, indeed against any talk of a national airline, asking: is it compulsory that every nation have a national airline? His reasoning was based on pure economics. Little has changed since then. Everyone knows the officials will have the families' (spouses, kids, other dependents) travel expenses, education, health bills, shopping, not to talk of rented accommodation and other bills, all footed by the "national airline cow"! This idea is a figment of our establishment kids, fed with notions including protocol admissions, allowances, including per diem, none of which they have ever earned. Let's learn to spend only what we have duly earned Period!
Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago
Your post is flawed on so many levels ,Dr. Henry Adabor, it would be funny if it were not for the seriousness of the topic. Let me ask one childish question of you, Dr. Adobor; why must Ghana's government bother with publicly ... read full comment
Your post is flawed on so many levels ,Dr. Henry Adabor, it would be funny if it were not for the seriousness of the topic. Let me ask one childish question of you, Dr. Adobor; why must Ghana's government bother with publicly managed and run transport system with the many cars and mass transport systems on our already saturated roads? Most of the private vehicles that ply Ghanaian roads are not fit to haul pigs much less perishable farm products but they do carty felliw Ghanaians around the country. It's about time Ghana became a nation that lived up to its objective at independence, chartered it's path to the future, took hold and set itself for a desired destiny and stopped being another brain dead SSA beggar nation with your kind of myopic naysayer mental attitude. It is one thing to argue against a national carrier wuth the potential for bribery, corruption, nepotism, tribal and political influences that will come to bear on a national flyer but it is another to argue on the basis of competition.
I will like to remind you that apart from natural and mineral resources that may be in need on the global market, Ghana cannot compete on the global market on most farm products such as banana, plantain, oranges, pear and a whole host of items so why should we not rather buy/import instead of wasting time getting baked in the sun on Ghanaian farms? Would it not be better if Ghana relied and lived off imports against all the ailments from sweating in the sun? There are far too many industries that has collapsed in the USA and many other nations because of cheap imports from China but China cannot beat the quality on most of the products against products from the competition. There many consumers who buy quality and not cheap quality products. The same is true of current airlines servicing Ghana at many levels. Ghana must not put its tail between its legs and run from competition like a bitch but must learn to compete with the best; the global competition is not getting any easier and is not going away anytime soon, Dr. Adabor. KLM do have agreements with Delta and others and so are the many national and privately run airlines because there are alliances and money to be made in the industry all we do ask for as the flying public is quality and service.
Kalipo 7 years ago
MR ABEEKU, IF UAE OWNS EMIRATES, I AM SURE IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER OR NOT THE AIRLINE MAKES PROFITS, THE NATION CAN EASILY OFFSET ANY LOSSES FROM THEIR DEEP NATIONAL COFFERS, AND THE PROTECTION OF THEIR NATIONAL PRID ... read full comment
MR ABEEKU, IF UAE OWNS EMIRATES, I AM SURE IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER OR NOT THE AIRLINE MAKES PROFITS, THE NATION CAN EASILY OFFSET ANY LOSSES FROM THEIR DEEP NATIONAL COFFERS, AND THE PROTECTION OF THEIR NATIONAL PRIDE WILL ALWAYS BE INTACT. CAN GHANA DO SAME
Kwame 7 years ago
Competition is always a good thing.
Dr Adobor's piece is full of "I suspect... I feel". He did not provide any salient points or any strong arguments to the contrary.
The number of airlines flying into the country sh ... read full comment
Competition is always a good thing.
Dr Adobor's piece is full of "I suspect... I feel". He did not provide any salient points or any strong arguments to the contrary.
The number of airlines flying into the country should tell you that we do have a growing and thriving travel industry. A revamped national airline will be a very good thing. If we can partner with other airlines, or even join an alliance ( as Ethiopian, Kenyan and South African airlines are doing), all the better.
TTK 7 years ago
Competition is good for the customers. But for you an airline, competition is only good if you can compete.
Competition is good for the customers. But for you an airline, competition is only good if you can compete.
Truth 7 years ago
Can anyone vouch that the workers will not run the airline underground with the unjustified perks we Ghanaians are likely to allocate to ourselves when given responsibility of any national asset?
Can anyone vouch that the workers will not run the airline underground with the unjustified perks we Ghanaians are likely to allocate to ourselves when given responsibility of any national asset?
King of powers 7 years ago
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Adamu 7 years ago
The Ghana Airways can survive if the managers and the workers change their mind an attitudes.There were corruption everywhere,Passengers were taking over weight without officially paying for the excess weight,Tickets were iss ... read full comment
The Ghana Airways can survive if the managers and the workers change their mind an attitudes.There were corruption everywhere,Passengers were taking over weight without officially paying for the excess weight,Tickets were issued cheaper or not accounted for.The Ghana Government was also not paying for their tickets and misused theVip or First Class seats.We did not keep proper accounts.It turned out to be a Loot and Share Enterprise.
Papa Kwesi Quansah 7 years ago
Good read. The writer has made interesting points. In the west indies,(Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and others) their national carrier is the BWIA (British West Indies Airlines). The island nations maintain their various airpo ... read full comment
Good read. The writer has made interesting points. In the west indies,(Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and others) their national carrier is the BWIA (British West Indies Airlines). The island nations maintain their various airports, however, those island nations together own their national airlines. Couldn't we also (English speaking West-African countries) do same. I think that our nations should own a united West African airlines and individually own our airports. It could probably push us west Africans to using one currency
Truth 7 years ago
You cannot merge undisciplined groups together, will be disastrous
You cannot merge undisciplined groups together, will be disastrous
NO-NONSENSE 7 years ago
Are you serious?
You know Nigeria Airlines stories?
You go to your seat and find someone with another ORIGINAL ticket and BOARDING pass Number for the same seat? Come see people throwing blows for seat place.
Airlin ... read full comment
Are you serious?
You know Nigeria Airlines stories?
You go to your seat and find someone with another ORIGINAL ticket and BOARDING pass Number for the same seat? Come see people throwing blows for seat place.
Airlines held in Egypt many times because someone CHOP the fuel money and vanished?
NOTE: What you are saying about joint Airlines WORKS with WHITE people. Forget the black man.
Example is SAS(Scandinavian Airlines System)
Tamatan 7 years ago
We just do not need another Ghana Airways we have had enough of that unless folks behind all those plans want to find means to chop chop again we have tried our own airlines not once but how many times the end results is alwa ... read full comment
We just do not need another Ghana Airways we have had enough of that unless folks behind all those plans want to find means to chop chop again we have tried our own airlines not once but how many times the end results is always chop chop and cover ups sinking us into more debt please if that is only way to make our motherland popular then I am sorry.There are several avenues our madam aviation minister can do a lot to help in our forward match but sorry not Ghana Airways.Those who are behind bring Ghana Airways back are those folks who are thinking for their selfish ends and not our dear Ghana.
Osei Boakye 7 years ago
It makes more sense right now for Ghana Airways to focus on domestic aviation, rather than to strive to become international carrier.
See to bring the airways we currently have up to standards, build new ones in Wa, Yeji ... read full comment
It makes more sense right now for Ghana Airways to focus on domestic aviation, rather than to strive to become international carrier.
See to bring the airways we currently have up to standards, build new ones in Wa, Yeji, Cape Coast, Nkawkaw,,Koforidua , Cape Coast , Aflao, and Axim to convey passengers and produces. Time for Ghanaians to get to see one another by visiting other Ghanaian cities and towns.
Kwam 7 years ago
You may be right, but why do we think it is not going to succeed? if Ethiopia, Kenya , south Africa etc has done it why must we fail? if not because of the greed and corruption?
You may be right, but why do we think it is not going to succeed? if Ethiopia, Kenya , south Africa etc has done it why must we fail? if not because of the greed and corruption?
Truth 7 years ago
The 3 countries you've mentioned above are more advanced and by far more successful than Ghana. They do things right that's why they're successful. We can't do half the things they've done.
The 3 countries you've mentioned above are more advanced and by far more successful than Ghana. They do things right that's why they're successful. We can't do half the things they've done.
cha 7 years ago
more advance do you know there is famine and drought in ethiopia and kenya they give all thier resources to china to build for them thier airline is technically chinese you sit there and talk trash you people dont know what i ... read full comment
more advance do you know there is famine and drought in ethiopia and kenya they give all thier resources to china to build for them thier airline is technically chinese you sit there and talk trash you people dont know what is going on in the world.
Desiree' 7 years ago
I think we will be creating a burden for our nation if we try to revamp Ghana airways
I think we will be creating a burden for our nation if we try to revamp Ghana airways
Francis 7 years ago
We genuinely do not need another Ghana Airways.It is simply an avenue to create loot. Managers/employees would just treat it as their private enterprise and milk it dry as it was the days of Ghana Airways. The money meant for ... read full comment
We genuinely do not need another Ghana Airways.It is simply an avenue to create loot. Managers/employees would just treat it as their private enterprise and milk it dry as it was the days of Ghana Airways. The money meant for such useless venture can be used to support bus transport system in the Towns and district across the country and in doing so, most Ghanaians would benefit from it. Just tell me how many Ghanaian travel on Air craft let alone patronising so call Would be Ghana Airways. We simply do not have the right mindset to operate a profitable National Airline. Away with this proposal.
I agree with you. Why invest in something that is not sustainable. Aside from the needless fiscal constraints on the budget, do we have the market size to capture the benefits? Or is this just another "free project" to help t ...
read full comment
Nice read. our country definitely is on the path of destruction because of misplaced priorities. Needless free shs and white elephant ghana airways
WE CANNOT run anything efficiently.
Contract a FOREIGN COMPANY to run Ghana Airways and we may make a moderate gain. Ghanaman will run EVERYTHING DOWN
Our thanks to Dr. Henry Adobor for stating a position more aligned with reality, need, and commonsense.
At this point, it is important to look at the PricewaterhouseCoopers with the same level of caution as Charles Takyi B ...
read full comment
1.Burns Fats at the Tummy and the Arms.
0572174551
2.Blocks Carbohydrates and Fat Absorption.
3.Reduces the conversion of Carbohydrates into Fats.
4.Enhances Weight loss.
0572174551
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read full comment
Stop this fast and loose antic of your idiotic loose weight lying through teeth.
Yes, the author is right: reason must trump passion and patriotism. When the now Superminister Osafo Marfo visited Hamburg in 2002 he was all out against the idea of a revival of Ghana Airways, indeed against any talk of a na ...
read full comment
Your post is flawed on so many levels ,Dr. Henry Adabor, it would be funny if it were not for the seriousness of the topic. Let me ask one childish question of you, Dr. Adobor; why must Ghana's government bother with publicly ...
read full comment
MR ABEEKU, IF UAE OWNS EMIRATES, I AM SURE IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER OR NOT THE AIRLINE MAKES PROFITS, THE NATION CAN EASILY OFFSET ANY LOSSES FROM THEIR DEEP NATIONAL COFFERS, AND THE PROTECTION OF THEIR NATIONAL PRID ...
read full comment
Competition is always a good thing.
Dr Adobor's piece is full of "I suspect... I feel". He did not provide any salient points or any strong arguments to the contrary.
The number of airlines flying into the country sh ...
read full comment
Competition is good for the customers. But for you an airline, competition is only good if you can compete.
Can anyone vouch that the workers will not run the airline underground with the unjustified perks we Ghanaians are likely to allocate to ourselves when given responsibility of any national asset?
This is a man who can bring back your life about all your spiritual problems spiritual diseases spiritual attacks problems madness child Barrens or you want to get quick riche search for positions and many more call for all h ...
read full comment
The Ghana Airways can survive if the managers and the workers change their mind an attitudes.There were corruption everywhere,Passengers were taking over weight without officially paying for the excess weight,Tickets were iss ...
read full comment
Good read. The writer has made interesting points. In the west indies,(Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and others) their national carrier is the BWIA (British West Indies Airlines). The island nations maintain their various airpo ...
read full comment
You cannot merge undisciplined groups together, will be disastrous
Are you serious?
You know Nigeria Airlines stories?
You go to your seat and find someone with another ORIGINAL ticket and BOARDING pass Number for the same seat? Come see people throwing blows for seat place.
Airlin ...
read full comment
We just do not need another Ghana Airways we have had enough of that unless folks behind all those plans want to find means to chop chop again we have tried our own airlines not once but how many times the end results is alwa ...
read full comment
It makes more sense right now for Ghana Airways to focus on domestic aviation, rather than to strive to become international carrier.
See to bring the airways we currently have up to standards, build new ones in Wa, Yeji ...
read full comment
You may be right, but why do we think it is not going to succeed? if Ethiopia, Kenya , south Africa etc has done it why must we fail? if not because of the greed and corruption?
The 3 countries you've mentioned above are more advanced and by far more successful than Ghana. They do things right that's why they're successful. We can't do half the things they've done.
more advance do you know there is famine and drought in ethiopia and kenya they give all thier resources to china to build for them thier airline is technically chinese you sit there and talk trash you people dont know what i ...
read full comment
I think we will be creating a burden for our nation if we try to revamp Ghana airways
We genuinely do not need another Ghana Airways.It is simply an avenue to create loot. Managers/employees would just treat it as their private enterprise and milk it dry as it was the days of Ghana Airways. The money meant for ...
read full comment