The Ghanaian government has plans to review the allocation of the 5th Freedom traffic rights granted to foreign carriers, Minister of Aviation Cecilia Dapaah has said.
“The Fifth Freedom Traffic Rights are for a specified period," Dapaah told the B&FT newspaper. "We will renegotiate and get the best for Ghana.”
Following the demise of Ghana Airways (Accra) in 2004 and its successor Ghana International Airlines (Accra) in 2010, the Ghanaian government began allocating the traffic rights to interested carriers in a bid to increase competition on regional routes while driving down prices.
The ch-aviation route database indicates that for flights out of Accra, the following airlines have been granted the following 5th Freedom rights:
- Abidjan: Air Burkina, Air Côte d'Ivoire, Brussels Airlines, EgyptAir, Emirates, MEA - Middle East Airlines, and South African Airways;
- Banjul: Arik Air;
- Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International: Arik Air;
- Freetown: Kenya Airways;
- Lagos: RwandAir;
- Lomé: Brussels Airlines;
- Monrovia Roberts: Kenya Airways and Royal Air Maroc;
- São Tome: TAP Portugal;
- Washington Dulles: South African Airways.
Dapaah's comments come at a time when President Nana Akufo-Addo's government is pushing ahead with plans to establish a new national carrier by 2019. Last week, she was quoted as saying foreign investors had started to submit proposals for the carrier which will take the form of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
- Dubai International
- Brussels National
- Ouagadougou
- Abidjan
- Cairo International
- Accra
- Banjul
- Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta
- Beirut
- Monrovia Roberts
- Casablanca Mohamed V
- Lagos
- Lisbon
- Kigali
- Freetown
- Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International
- São Tome
- Lomé
- Washington Dulles
- Johannesburg O.R. Tambo
- Air Burkina
- Arik Air
- Royal Air Maroc
- Brussels Airlines
- Air Côte d'Ivoire
- Emirates
- Ghana International Airlines
- Ghana Airways
- Kenya Airways
- MEA - Middle East Airlines
- EgyptAir
- RwandAir
- South African Airways
- TAP Portugal
- Joint Ventures
- Bases/Hubs
- Government Subsidisation
- Airport Operations
- Certification Events