Ghana Airways

Since Thursday 16th June, all the news that has been going around Accra and even confirmed in the Daily Graphic is that Ghana Airways has been declared bankrupt. What news. They finally did it. But have they considered other options?..

I understand that it is one of the ploys being taken to avoid paying workers their redundancy monies, pension accrued etc Imagine an offer of two months salary times the number of years. If you earned C800,000.00 per month and worked for ten years, then calculate what you are being given C16,000,000 for ten years work. Less than ?1,000.00. Would you accept that?

Since last year when workers were sent home and the skeleton staff were working what has been done to speed up the payments of those working. Planes land every day and staff are working 24 hours to keep the airport open. People do not realise that these people have only received salary up to March 2005 will they be compensated?.

What is the procedure of bankruptcy?.Doesn?t the liquidator look at all the assets, the creditors and decide who should be paid off first and wouldn?t it be humane to pay off the workers first?After all big companies will survive without the money Ghana Airways will give them.

Ghana Web, not once, in these three days mentioned this news, why? Have they been silenced. Please give us the information that is important, not news about a boy stealing plantain

On another note. I miss Ghana Airways. My flying home now, and I do this about three times a year, has become a nightmare. Not knowing what carrier to use, what prices to pay etc?Bad service from a foreigner is an insult and that is what we get. Prices have risen so high you cant understand it. British Airways fly to the West Indies, a longer distance, for cheaper and they give them 50KG?but we get a lousy 20KG and prices that could take use from London to Australia and back. Why don?t we make a cry about it.

My gifts to the family alone weigh that amount. Also a word to the organisers of festivals in Ghana, {especially Panafest}. Please organise them during the low seasons and you will get lots of people coming over. Most visitors coming do not bring their children on the short breaks and the spenders can fly out any time but the high season prices frighten them away. Look at the seasonal schedules of the outside world and plan your events and see a difference.

A word to the wise is enough.

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