By Ankit Ajmera and Tim Hepher
By Ankit Ajmera and Tim Hepher
DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Ghana turned the most recent African nation to assist the event of a global airline to spice up its financial system and develop tourism as its authorities signed a provisional order for 3 Boeing long-haul 787 Dreamliner jets on Tuesday.
The transfer on the Dubai Airshow, a focus for Center East airways which have expanded their networks into Africa, got here nearly a decade after the collapse of Ghana’s flag provider, nevertheless it left unsure a proposed tie-up with Ethiopian Airways.
“We want to have the ability to ferry Ghanaians to Europe, North America to Asia for enterprise. We have to ferry them from these locations again to Ghana to do enterprise and luxuriate in,” Aviation Minister Joseph Kofi Adda informed reporters on the airshow.
Ghana hopes to launch a brand new airline with Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliners by early 2020 with flights to Europe, North America and Asia, whereas servicing routes inside Africa with as much as six smaller Sprint 8-400 plane, which have been additionally provisionally ordered on Tuesday from Canada’s De Havilland…