{"id":1230690,"date":"2022-10-21T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/sentra-airways-a-pan-african-airline-set-to-launch-operations-in-ghana-by-end-of-this-year\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:18:48","slug":"sentra-airways-a-pan-african-airline-set-to-launch-operations-in-ghana-by-end-of-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/sentra-airways-a-pan-african-airline-set-to-launch-operations-in-ghana-by-end-of-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentra Airways, a Pan African Airline set to launch operations in Ghana by end of this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghana is set to see a new airline entering its aviation industry to ply the Manchester-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. 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. 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

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Sentra Airways secured its 1st airplane in April this year; an Airbus A330-200 from Air Lease Corporation (ALC), a US-based lessor. 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 3-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 the Kotoka International Airways (KIA) as a major entry point into West Africa. They are therefore calling on the regulatory agencies to support the new entrants 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 its number of flights on its UK-Ghana route.<\/p>\n

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Ghana is set to see a new airline entering its aviation industry to ply the Manchester-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 of Sentra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[461,6330,16567,85,1598,3948,19444,27768,618,293],"class_list":["post-1230690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-african","tag-airline","tag-airways","tag-ghana","tag-launch","tag-operations","tag-pan","tag-sentra","tag-set","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230690","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=1230690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}