{"id":277367,"date":"2016-12-16T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277367"},"modified":"2016-12-16T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:47:46","slug":"ghana-suspends-plans-to-get-a-new-national-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277367","title":{"rendered":"Ghana suspends plans to get a new national airline"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>Ghana has suspended plans to get a partner for the new national airline.<\/p>\n

This is because the work of the approval committee in the Public Private Partnership process has stalled following the election of a new government.<\/p>\n

The halt in operations of the committee will continue until the incoming NPP administration concludes appointments to key ministries, departments and agencies and subsequently form a new approval committee.<\/p>\n

The Committee is expected to approve the Request for the proposal from the ten shortlisted airlines.<\/p>\n

Transport Minister, Fiifi Kwetey had earlier stated that the process should be completed in October this year.<\/p>\n

It is however unclear when the new committee will be formed.<\/p>\n

The new national airline has become imperative following the collapse of the Ghana International Airlines in 2010.<\/p>\n

The Ghana International Airlines was established in 2004 with 70 percent shares held by the government and 30 percent held by a US consortium GIA-USA.<\/p>\n

National airline necessary<\/p>\n

The quest to revive the operations of a new national airline has been viewed by some observers in the aviation industry as an indispensable component of attaining the objective of becoming an aviation hub in the sub-region.<\/p>\n

According to the Country Manager for Air France KLM, Dick Van Niewwenhuyzen, the increased infrastructure will build confidence in Ghana\u2019s aviation industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see new departure terminals being built; also Ghana recently launched its new cargo centre and I believe the country is undertaking these infrastructure because it sees growth, opportunities to expand the business. I think the market will remain same but the cake will be shared differently among participants in the industry,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghana has suspended plans to get a partner for the new national airline. This is because the work of the approval committee in the Public Private Partnership process has stalled following the election of a new government. The halt in operations of the committee will continue until the incoming NPP administration concludes appointments to key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":277384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11,1166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}