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Ghana Airways on June 6, 1974 received the first of two new Fokker Fellowship F28 MK 2,000 aircraft.<\/p>\n
The aircraft, purchased from the Netherlands was received by the Commissioner for Transport and Communications, Colonel Peter Agyekum.<\/p>\n
In a video shared by Ghana Facts and History and sighted by\u00a0GhanaWeb\u00a0Business, some dignitaries including Colonel Peter Agyekum and chief were present for the ceremony.<\/p>\n
It was also earlier reported that the medium range jet aircraft extended its services to the United States and some African and European countries.<\/p>\n
Ghana Airways Limited served as the flag carrier of Ghana. The airline ceased operations in 2004.<\/p>\n
There were discussions to revive Ghana Airways in 2020 in collaboration with EgyptAir but proved futile.<\/p>\n
Struggling with debt<\/strong><\/p>\n According to simplyflying.com, Ghana Airways encountered operational difficulties in Banjul. In 2002, one of the airlines\u2019 DC-10s was seized at London Heathrow when a British creditor of the airline got a legal judgment to recoup some of the $4.8 million it owed.<\/p>\n Following the seizure, Ghana Airways Chairman, Sam Jonah said that the airline had debts of $160 million and would not survive without a foreign partner.<\/p>\n The British creditor later released the DC-10 after receiving a payment of $1 million.<\/p>\n In September 2002, government announced that it had entered into an agreement with South Africa\u2019s Nationwide Airlines and that Ghana Airways would be renamed Ghana Nationwide International Airlines.<\/p>\n This relationship did not last long, with the government saying in 2003 that it had withdrawn from the deal with Nationwide.<\/p>\n It later got involved with British Midland and formed a new airline \u2013 Fly Ghana Limited.<\/p>\n This airline too is not operational and Ghana does not have a national carrier.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0<\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n