South African Airways and Ghana Airways are to extend their codeshare ties into a wider long-term commercial alliance.
Signing the memorandum of understanding on the deal in Johannesburg, SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews said Ghana Airways will become a key partner in the South African airline's networking plans in Africa. The airlines intend to operate daily or near daily services between most western African and southern African destinations, by operating jointly through each others' hubs in Accra and Johannesburg.
SAA has suspended flights to Dakar, in favour of codeshares with Ghana Airways via Accra. The plan is to link western and eastern African services, offer faster connections between western, eastern and southern Africa to the USA, and improve Africa's access to South America and Asia.
Ghana Airways chief executive Emmanuel L Quartey Jnr says the alliance will allow the carrier to further develop its western African network and connect it to more services to the USA.
Source: Flight International
