Minister-designate for Aviation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has promised to get a new national carrier working within two years if her nomination is approved.
Ghana Airways, Ghana's national carrier went out of business in the early 2000s and though there have been several attempts to resuscitate it, none have been really successful.
Addressing members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament during her vetting on Wednesday, Ms Dapaah stated one of her main tasks at the ministry is to help establish a national carrier in the image of Ghana Airways.
"That will be the baby I will give birth to", she said in response to a question on whether she was going set up a new national carrier.
According to her, left to her alone, she would have wanted the new airline to be in operation within one year but in her consultations with the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, the Ghana Airports Company Limited and other stakeholders, they suggested a period of two years for the new airline to start operations.
"I have seen documents that can aid us have our own airline. I have talked to the GCAA and GACL and feasibility studies have been done by the previous government. It was done by Pricewater House and I believe we will have a study of the findings and add up what we have received so far and take it up from there. What I will add is that, I believe that Ghana is ripe to have its own carrier", she said adding that, "I’ll cross my fingers, the consultant said two years and I said we should do it in a year if possible. So between one and two years, I think that should be the period".
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