{"id":143698,"date":"2015-08-16T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=143698"},"modified":"2015-08-19T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:13:10","slug":"sa-airways-direct-flight-from-accra-to-washington-now-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=143698","title":{"rendered":"SA Airways direct flight from Accra to Washington now operational"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Airways (SAA), launched it’s debut flight between from Accra, Ghana to the Dulles International Airport in Washington DC on the 2nd<\/sup> of August 2015.<\/p>\n

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The seats of the airline are spacious enough to house any passenger: your height or weight does not really matter.<\/p>\n

Due to the sheer size of the aircraft, the cabin compartments are spacious enough to take slightly bigger hand luggage.<\/p>\n

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The cabin crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Passengers on board an SAA flight from Accra, to Washington have a wide range of movies and entertainment channels to choose from; comedy, thriller, African movies and wide range of cartoons for even kids.<\/p>\n

Dignitaries on board the plane were Minister of Transport, Honourable Dzifa \u00a0Attivor, as well as other Ghanaian government officials including the Acting Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company Limited, Charles Kwame Asare, <\/em>Tony Lithur\u00a0–<\/i>\u00a0Board Chair Ghana Airports Company Limited, among others.<\/p>\n

Arrival at Dulles International Airport<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Executive Vice-President of SAA – the Americas, Marc S. Cavaliere welcomed carefully selected guests who were on board the debut flight.<\/p>\n

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Executive Vice-President of SAA – the Americas, Marc S. Cavaliere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr Cavaliere\u00a0said \u00a0the launch\u00a0 of the direct flight would\u00a0 make travelling easier for both Ghanaians living in the US\u00a0 and expatriates.<\/p>\n

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Minister of Transport, Dzifa Attivor, and Ghana and South African Delegation being addressed by Marc. S\u00a0 Cavaliere upon arrival.<\/p>\n

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Ghana Embassy in US host SAA business delegation<\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of activities to mark the inaugural flight to Washington D.C Ghana’s ambassador to the US, Ambassador Smith, hosted the Ghana and South Africa delegation.<\/p>\n

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Third left, Country director for SAA in Ghana, Gloria Wilkinson with some of the business delegation from Ghana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Staff of Ecobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Prior to the debut flight<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before SAA begun its debut direct flight to Washington D.C,\u00a0SAA\u2019s Flyer Program, SAA Voyager in partnership with Ecobank in Ghana,\u00a0 launched the first ever co-branded Gold and Platinum SAA Voyager Credit Cards within Ghana with the intent to further expand their partnership within the African continent.<\/p>\n

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SAA Voyager and Ecobank are confident that their brands are strategically aligned. By delivering credit cards to clients in Ghana with the \u201cbest-in-class\u201d card-based airline rewards value proposition, both partners envisage driving \u201cfirst-card-in-wallet\u201d behaviour in the African payment card market. The intent is to further expand their partnership within the African continent.<\/p>\n

The flights from Washington D.C to Accra are scheduled for\u00a0 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at Departure time 5:40PM, \u00a0while the flights\u00a0 from Accra\u00a0 to the\u00a0 Dulles International\u00a0 Airport in Washington D.C are\u00a0 scheduled\u00a0 for\u00a0 Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 10:45PM.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile South African Airways has partnered African World Airlines (AWA) for a co-share agreement.<\/p>\n

Under the co-share agreement, AWA will feed SAA with passengers from the West African sub-region while SAA passengers connecting to other cities in Ghana or West Africa would be put on AWA flights.<\/p>\n

Click below to listen to full report:<\/strong><\/p>\n