{"id":437564,"date":"2011-06-07T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/arik-air-rated-africa%e2%80%99s-fastest-growing-airline\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:13:04","slug":"arik-air-rated-africas-fastest-growing-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/arik-air-rated-africas-fastest-growing-airline\/","title":{"rendered":"Arik Air rated Africa\u2019s fastest growing airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69.0045248869\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/tourism\/\" title=\"View all posts in Tourism\" rel=\"category tag\">Tourism<\/a> \u00bb Arik Air rated Africa\u2019s fastest growing airline<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Tuesday, June 7, 2011 16:16 PM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Arik-Air_plane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48847\" title=\"Arik Air_plane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Arik-Air_plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>West Africa\u2019s largest commercial airline, Arik Air has been rated as the fastest growing commercial airline on the African continent, latest statistics released by the Airline Network News and Analysis (ANNA) show.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row that Arik has achieved such status, ANNA indicated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sheng Pang, Reader Relationship Manager at ANNA,\u00a0 Arik\u2019s growing fleet of modern aircraft, serving domestic, regional and inter-continental services has been a breath of fresh air in the African airline market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to reporting on many more route launches for the airline in the months and years ahead\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Arik Air\u2019s Vice President Planning &#038; Marketing, Bert van der Stege, was cited in a press release copied to ghanabusinessnews.com saying, \u201cArik is very happy to be awarded fastest growing African Airline again, which shows that we see a lot of potential in developing air transport in this part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was therefore optimistic that the airline will soon be among the top three carriers in Africa only \u201cIf we continue to grow at this pace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arik Air now operates a fleet of 24 state-of-the art regional, medium haul and long haul aircraft including two Airbus A340-500 making the airline the first operator of the wide bodied aircraft in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Ekow Quandzie<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>| | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Currently%20reading%20http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/07\/arik-air-rated-africa%E2%80%99s-fastest-growing-airline\/\" title=\"Click to send this page to Twitter!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a> | <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/07\/arik-air-rated-africa\u2019s-fastest-growing-airline\/\" title=\"Arik Air rated Africa\u2019s fastest growing airline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arik Air rated Africa\u2019s fastest growing airline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb Tourism \u00bb Arik Air rated Africa\u2019s fastest growing airline Page last updated at Tuesday, June 7, 2011 16:16 PM \/\/ West Africa\u2019s largest commercial airline, Arik Air has been rated as the fastest growing commercial airline on the African continent, latest statistics released by the Airline Network News and Analysis (ANNA) show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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