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Aviator should be read as Goldstar Airlines of Ghana with the tag line 'Wings of Ghana'.
They have wet leased a Boeing 767-300 from Euro Atlantic Airways in full Goldstar Airlines livery and intend operating from Accra to Baltimore and London Gatwick but are waiting approval to commence flights from the Ghanaian authorities after there recent audit.
There intention was start flights in December but no exact start date as yet.
With the introduction of Med View Airlines to Lagos and the proposed start up of Goldstar Airlines to Accra Gatwick seem to be adding new African routes to its portfolio plus the ambitious intentions of Air Zimbabwe of resuming flights in the near future to Harare as well as Rwandair stating they plan flights from Kigali once they receive there A330's.
If all goes as planned Gatwick will have quite a few options to Africa once again.
They have wet leased a Boeing 767-300 from Euro Atlantic Airways in full Goldstar Airlines livery and intend operating from Accra to Baltimore and London Gatwick but are waiting approval to commence flights from the Ghanaian authorities after there recent audit.
There intention was start flights in December but no exact start date as yet.
With the introduction of Med View Airlines to Lagos and the proposed start up of Goldstar Airlines to Accra Gatwick seem to be adding new African routes to its portfolio plus the ambitious intentions of Air Zimbabwe of resuming flights in the near future to Harare as well as Rwandair stating they plan flights from Kigali once they receive there A330's.
If all goes as planned Gatwick will have quite a few options to Africa once again.
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Your absolutely correct Aviator is the GHA as in Ground Handling Agent for Med View Airlines at Gatwick, my mistake I was getting it confused with Ghana when it was GHA.
Thanks for pointing out that schoolboy error to me☺️
Your absolutely correct Aviator is the GHA as in Ground Handling Agent for Med View Airlines at Gatwick, my mistake I was getting it confused with Ghana when it was GHA.
Thanks for pointing out that schoolboy error to me☺️
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Interesting. I have seen no advertising for them here in the NE Caribbean, when I mention these flights to people they have no idea about them but are really interested. We are only 30 minutes flying time to SJU and this will allow us to avoid LIAT to Antigua or traveling via the USA. They need to get the word out there and am sure they will get a lot of business.
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Interesting and surprising choice of route from Vueling. Given EZY already serve what is a pretty saturated route in the South East it'll be interesting to see how they fair with this.
More interestingly how does this fit in to a wider plan for LGW operations?
More interestingly how does this fit in to a wider plan for LGW operations?
Reports elsewhere of Gatwick-is-the-Heathrow-waiting-room syndrome occurring again.
Garuda is to decouple London and Amsterdam, and move London flights from Gatwick to Heathrow.
The option of using Garuda as a cheap (but rather obscure) way to travel between London and Amsterdam won't be around for much longer it seems.
Garuda is to decouple London and Amsterdam, and move London flights from Gatwick to Heathrow.
The option of using Garuda as a cheap (but rather obscure) way to travel between London and Amsterdam won't be around for much longer it seems.
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That'll hurt LGW's expansion argument surely.
Despite it having spare capacity now, the market (ie airlines) still prefer the constrained LHR. Did Davies got it right - expanding LHR is the best option?
Despite it having spare capacity now, the market (ie airlines) still prefer the constrained LHR. Did Davies got it right - expanding LHR is the best option?
