South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will move ahead with previously outlined plans to establish a West African hub in either Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Gabon or Togo before 2016 with a feasibility study currently underway. According to BusinessDay, SAA CEO Monwabisi Kalawe says the establishment of a West African hub forms part of his airline's latest turnaround plans which have set expansion into Africa as a priority. "We are investigating setting up a hub for cargo and passengers in West Africa. There is a lot of movement between West Africa and the US; West Africa and Asia. There are also a lot of people who want to come to Southern Africa … and now they have to go through Europe first," he said. South Africa's Air Traffic Navigation Services and Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) will also join SAA in studying the region's investment potential. Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International is a strong contender after South African president Jacob Zuma recently announced plans to establish an MRO base at Dakar's new airport, Blaise Diagne International Airport, due to come online in late 2014. On the issue of SAA's purported involvement with Nigeria in setting up a new national carrier, Nigeria One (Lagos), Mr Kalawe said SAA had been approached "by a group of Nigerians … a government group. They would like us to explore working together in Nigeria," he said. West Africa and its enormous underexploited market has drawn much interest from many of Africa's largest carriers, among them EgyptAir (MS, Cairo International) and Royal Air Maroc (AT, Casablanca Mohammed V) though to date, only Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) has been able to get any tangible results with its venture, ASKY Airlines (KP, Lomé).