AWA consolidated its position as the premier airline in Anglophone West Africa with its dominance of the Nigerian regional travel market, and its numerous partnerships with international airlines. The airline was the largest international carrier operating to Nigeria by 2019 with 200 monthly frequencies to both Lagos and Abuja. Michael Cheng Luo also returned as CEO in 2019 and the airline took delivery of its seventh and eight aircraft in 20 respectively. The airline launched flights to Freetown in 2018, Wa in 2019, and Abidjan in 2020. In 2018, Sean Mendis returned as COO after 6 years away. The airline is the only IATA member airline in Ghana.
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AWA became a full member of IATA in 2017, following the completion of its second IOSA audit. New services to Abuja and Monrovia were launched. Two additional aircraft were also delivered in 2017 taking the fleet up to six. In 2017, John Xiaoyi Quan, former Managing Director of Air Guilin in China, took over as CEO. Expansion Īfrica World Airlines inaugural flight to Abidjan on 14 February 2020ĪWA began the next phase of its expansion in December 2016, with the delivery of its fourth Embraer 145 aircraft. In October 2015, Samuel Thompson took over from Apiigy Afenu as COO. In May 2015, AWA successfully completed its first IOSA audit, making it only the second airline in Ghana to achieve this international safety standard. The airline continued to expand its domestic market share during this period, and focussed on training Ghanaian staff in technical roles such as pilots and engineers to reduce dependence on expatriates. Plans for expansion of regional routes were temporarily put on hold due to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, but the airline nonetheless recorded its first annual profits in 2014.
Services to its fourth domestic destination of Takoradi commenced in May 2015. In December 2013, AWA launched its first international route connecting Accra with Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos. A third Embraer 145 was delivered in November 2013 as the airline increased frequencies on the domestic routes. By 2013, Zhang had been replaced by Michael Cheng Luo as CEO, and Mendis was replaced as COO by Apiigy Afenu. Flights to Tamale commenced later that year. It received its Air Operator Certificate on 21 September 2012 and commenced flight operations that same day with daily services between Accra and Kumasi. AWA took delivery of its first Embraer 145 aircraft in August 2012, immediately followed by a second aircraft in September 2012. After securing funding and partnership for the project, the initial management team led by CEO Zhang Jiuhua and COO Sean Mendis proceeded with the technical certification of the airline.
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The airline received its Air Carrier License from Ghana Civil Aviation Authority on 4 March 2011. Presentation of AOC to Africa World Airlines on 21 September 2012ĪWA was born as the brainchild of noted Ghanaian investment banker and traditional leader Togbe Afede XIV. ĪWA is a joint venture between Ghanaian shareholders SAS Finance Group and SSNIT, with minority shareholdings also by both HNA Group and China-Africa Development Fund via Zhongjia Investments of China.
The airline has been consistently profitable since 2014. It is the largest airline in Ghana with over 600,000 passengers booked in 2021, accounting for 65% of domestic passengers and 30% of all air passengers in the country. It has its head office in Airport City Accra, and its main hub at Kotoka International Airport in Accra. Commercial airline in Ghana Africa World AirlinesĪfrica World Airlines Limited ( AWA) is a Ghanaian airline company that was incorporated in 2010 and commenced flights in 2012.
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