Ghana is set to see a new airline entering its aviation industry to ply the Manchester to Accra routes.<\/p>\n
Sentra Airways, a Manchester-based startup Pan African Airline, is set to launch operations with its maiden flight to Accra scheduled in the last quarter of 2022, with initial long-haul flights from Manchester to Accra.<\/p>\n
The strategy of Sentra Airlines will see its operations expand to other West African countries and the United States later.<\/p>\n
The company was established in 2019, initially under the name \u2018Majestic Mallard Airways\u2019 with a startup capital of \u00a3600,000.<\/p>\n
The name was later changed to \u201cSentra Airways\u201d in January 2020. The airline\u2019s shareholders are Bilqis Ismail and Ishmael Musah, both Ghanaian citizens.<\/p>\n
Sentra Airways secured its first aeroplane in April this year; an Airbus A330-200 from Air Lease Corporation (ALC), a US-based lessor.<\/p>\n The airline aims to start operations this winter as Operations at the airport are due to begin in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Airline has long obtained its Air Operator\u2019s Certificate (AOC) from the UK Civil Aviation Authority.<\/p>\n The management of Sentra Airways has completed the first phase of its recruitment of personnel with a majority sourced from the Ghanaian Aviation Space and held a pre-departure and onboarding orientation program for its newly recruited crew members in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n The 16-member crew were oriented on topics such as work ethics, basic cabin crew management and also briefed on the administration and communications in Sentra Air Services Limited.<\/p>\n Ghanaian employees of the airline recruited are expected to join their counterparts in the UK later this month for a three-month intensive training and also prepare them for their general duties as cabin crew attendants on board Air Sentra flights.<\/p>\n The airline has chosen Accra as its first destination because they believe, it will help in positioning itself as the airline of choice and wants to establish regional partnerships.<\/p>\n Experts say the entry of Sentra Airways into the Ghanaian aviation industry will be crucial in consolidating Kotoka International Airways (KIA) as a major entry point into West Africa.<\/p>\n They are therefore calling on the regulatory agencies to support the new entrants to meet their planned timelines to start operations.<\/p>\n The news of the possibility of a new airline linking Ghana and the UK follows a recent decision of British Airways to cut the number of flights on its UK-Ghana route.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana is set to see a new airline entering its aviation industry to ply the Manchester to Accra routes. Sentra Airways, a Manchester-based startup Pan African Airline, is set to launch operations with its maiden flight to Accra scheduled in the last quarter of 2022, with initial long-haul flights from Manchester to Accra. The strategy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[16567,85,1598,3948,27768,293],"class_list":["post-1230380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airways","tag-ghana","tag-launch","tag-operations","tag-sentra","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sentra](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sentra-Airways.jpeg\" "\\"Sentra")
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