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Ghana Airways Starts BWI Run

Fuelman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1019 times:

At 6:25 am this morning- July 5, Ghana Airways (A/C 9G-ANA DC-10-30) touched down at BWI and taxied to gate E8, marking the first of hopefully many ACC-BWI/ BWI-ACC flights. Two a week are currently scheduled. One on wednesday that leaves at 16:00 and one on sunday that leaves around 22:00. Photos to come soon.

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Ctbarnes From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3491 posts, RR: 52
Reply 1, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 901 times:

Anybody flown Ghana Airways? How's their service?

Charles

The customer isn't a moron, she is your wife -David Ogilvy

Trvlr From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4430 posts, RR: 24
Reply 2, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 896 times:

Are they serving BWI because they did not want to go to Dulles? Also, so they already serve JFK? I never knew there would be so much of a market between Accra and the D.C. area that it would warrant a flight.

Aaron G.

SCXmechanic From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 534 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 891 times:

Maybe they had to divert due to delays into JFK.....??

Fuelman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 868 times:

They started the BWI route because they did not care to go to Dulles, and BWI has cheaper fuel prices. Also this was not a diversion from JFK, this is a totally new route.

AirT85 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 854 times:

Hi! In a book published in 1996, the author lists Ghana's fleet as 2 DC-10-30 and one DC-9-30 aircraft. Does the airline still fly these three planes? Have they added any more? Also, would you expect new orders form them? Where do they currently fly? Sorry i asked so many questions!

-Tony

Fuelman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 847 times:

In my 98/99 book, they list Ghana as having 2 DC-10-30's A/C 9G-ANA and 9G-PHN. Also 2 DC-9-51's A/C 9G-ADT and 9G-ADU, and one Fokker F27 Friendship 600 A/C G524/E. I know they fly the new route to BWI and the JFK route but I haven't a clue where else they fly.

AirT85 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 840 times:

Thanks!
-Tony

Cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 7712 posts, RR: 55
Reply 8, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 840 times:

One of the DC9s was written off in a crash a few years ago. They fly daily to Heathrow and the service is supposed to be quite good. They don't have any real onward connections so they're no good as a Pan-African carrier (like Ethiopian, Kenyan or Egyptair) but if you're going to Accra then they're as good as anyone else on the route - in my case, I'd probably pick them over BA. I'd certainly take them over Air France via CDG.

Hope the new route works out. Washington DC has a huge Afro-American population, no?

fly Saha Air 707s daily from Tehran's downtown Mehrabad to Mashhad, Kish Island and Ahwaz

Andie007 From Germany, joined Jun 2000, 848 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 821 times:

Ghana Airways serves Duesseldorf International, Germany on Monday and Friday for a few years now.
Also they fly to London and Rome.

Flumuc From Germany, joined Oct 1999, 392 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 810 times:

Do u think that the Dusseldorf flight is successful? They should move to Frankfurt and fly to Accra nonstop.

Andie007 From Germany, joined Jun 2000, 848 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 792 times:

I think so!
They fly this route for a long time and there are a lot of people flying with them.
The only problem is that everytime the plane arrives too late.

TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4685 posts, RR: 47
Reply 12, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 788 times:

The DUS-FCO-ACC has been very successful for many years, chiefly due to a sizeable West African population and important business centers in the Rhine/ Ruhr Area.
With LH offering a lot of nonstop West Africa destinations from FRA, why should Ghana Airways move to Rhein-Main when they can enjoy a virtual monopoly from DUS? Doesn't really make sense to me.
On a side note, GHA planned to purchase an MD-11 in the late Nineties and even had a picture of it on their website. For some time, they also leased an example from World Airways.

Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

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