Ghana and Boeing settle a roadmap for a new national airline

6 November 2026

Ghana has agreed a step-by-step plan with the Boeing group for setting up a new national airline. President John Dramani Mahama met Boeing officials, who said early studies show the project can work. The roadmap they settled starts with finding a strategic airline partner and a technical partner for the carrier. After that the airline must obtain an Air Operators Certificate, pick its fleet and close its financing decisions. Mahama wants the carrier to make better use of Ghana's upgraded airport facilities. He has set the goal of turning Accra into the leading aviation hub in West Africa. The government expects the airline to open thousands of jobs for pilots, cabin crew, aeronautical engineers and aviation management staff. Boeing told the President it would stay with the project through the airline's setting up and its operation.