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    GhanaWeb, Ghana
    Aug 9 2004

    Ghana Airways Losing Millions By The Day

    It's been a week of nightmare for the national carrier, Ghana
    Airways, as the queue of stranded passengers gets longer with each
    flight postponed.

    And as the queue grows longer so do the airline's bills.

    Ghana Airways is losing several millions of cedis in cash
    compensation for stranded passengers both in Ghana and the US.

    At the last count the airline has had to cater for over eight hundred
    stranded passengers in hotel and transportation bills.

    No official figures are readily available but the advertising manager
    of the airline, Mawuko Afadzinu admitted in an interview with Joy
    Business Report that the airline's bills keep increasing as more
    passengers continue to be disappointed.

    And matters came to a head on Sunday when the airline failed yet
    again to fly its passengers to London and Düsseldorf due to some
    technical problems.

    But underlying the problems of the airline is its lack of
    credibility.

    Efforts to lease a plane to fly came crashing down as the agent for
    the Armenian registered aircraft, Chapman Freemon, demanded a cash
    payment of 150 thousand dollars upfront.

    This did not please the chief executive of Ghana Airways, Akua
    Sarpong.

    `It is not possible to do such a thing. We don't know why he is doing
    that because in the past our cheques have not bounced. I cannot carry
    thousands of dollars in a bag to him when I have not even seen the
    aircraft, it is not possible', she said.

    The airline has been making efforts to replace its two DC-10 aircraft
    which have been the bane of some of the airline's problems.
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