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Horrible history of Ghana Airways makes it difficult to own an airline - Economist

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  • KP 7 years ago

    How do youy expect the airline to survive when each flight leaves with half the tickets purchased cheaply or freely by the staff. Ghanaians do not not think far at all

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  • MAAN 7 years ago

    BLAME THE NATION WRECKERS NPP.

  • TAVIE 7 years ago

    EVEN MY TICKET THAT WAS CONFIRMED FROM OVERSEAS TO ACCRA AND BACK TO OVERSEAS WAS TEMPERED WITH BY SWITCHING MY SEAT FROM ACCRA TO AMSTERDAM VIA KLM BUT I PROMISED MYSELF TO REPORT THIS IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN FROM ACCRA TO KLM T ...
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  • Jeanette Ackah 7 years ago

    The new Minister must tread cautiously. It is not the immediate Government that sought for the advice of PWC. The Kufuor Govt was the one that brought in PWC to first help with a Diagnostic Study and then to advice on the way ...
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  • tog 7 years ago

    Everything is politicized in ghana. So called ministers and their girl friends board for free .

  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    Well said tog, Ghanaians mentality is so poisonous it kills every good stuffs in the country, nothing can survive with this sort of mentality

  • Tag 7 years ago

    Good

  • Kokofu 7 years ago

    Just this week the Nigerian Government took over the reins of its biggest failing Carrier, Arik Airways.

    The biggest Airline in Nigeria carrying over 50% passenger load in the country as for the past years being struggling ...
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  • APLANKE 7 years ago

    ASK GHANA'S SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS TO CLEAN THEIR DIRTY BACKYARDS FIRST, BEFORE THINKING OF ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL AIRLINE.

    GHANA'S FUCKING LEADERS CAN'T PROPERLY MANAGE EVEN A PRESIDENTIAL CAR POOL, LET ALONE A NATIONAL ...
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  • WATCHMAN 7 years ago

    LET'S FIRST LEARN TO MANAGE GHANA'S PRESIDENTIAL CAR POOL BEFORE THINKING OF ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL AIRLINE, MANAGED BY GHANAIANS?

    THIS ECONOMIST MUST BE A FOOL!

  • KWAKU DONDOO 7 years ago

    Sure money can be made in the aviation sector, but Ghana government should not be part of it. Let the government supervise but stay out of the business.

  • Kweku 7 years ago

    Why are we doing the same thing over and over again and expecting that we will get different results. Politicians can never establish a viable airline.It was politicians who run down Ghana Airways and now they want to establi ...
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  • OBREMPONG NEW YORK 7 years ago

    Mr economist, you are 100% correct. I saw myself
    in MONROVIA, in the Republic of LIBERIA where
    I was a TEACHER. Most of the female traders
    who plied on ACCRA-MONROVIA route were
    the GIRL FRIENDS of th ...
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  • OKOE 7 years ago

    GHANA HAD A VIBRANT AIRLINES AND A SHIPPING COMPANY. IF TGE GOVERNMENTS AFTER THE CPP ADMINISTRATION OF AFTER THE COUP, ASK THEM WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE INSTITUTIONS AND MANY INDUSTRIES. NOT ONLY MISMANAGEMENTS BUT PURE STEALI ...
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