I'm always excited to see new airlines launching, and this is no exception. The government of Liberia and Goldstar Air of Ghana have signed a strategic partnership to revive the country's national airline. The new national airline of Liberia will be named Lone Star Air, and the motto will be "Wings of Liberia." The plan…
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Interesting Gold Star airplane. No front wheel and main gears are facing the camera while plane is facing to the left nice oh .. and full flaps on tarmac
I love how the National Airline of Liberia has Monrovia in Ecuador on the route map. SMH.
Give people in Monrovia, Liberia some sympathy. Their air service is lousy. I believe there are only two airports with non-grass runways, their version of LGA and JFK, except in bad shape, terminals and runways. If you live in Monrovia and have to get to Lagos or Dakar by air, good luck! Even flights to Europe are not common, maybe once a week???
On the other hand, they are poor. Should the 1% give them money? Where's Bernie? Americans in poverty are the rich compared to the poor in Liberia. Some urban houses don't have toilets or reliable trash collection.
i know right! I flew GoldStar Airlines from Kuwait to Washington DC. Damn, I loved their complimentary chauffeur car service and their G-Suites OMG! When I arrived in Washington, I felt relaxed and GoldStar Platinum members don't even have to quarantine because everyone gangsta until GoldStar 777 comes into the tarmac with full flaps and no landing gear! No competition at all... Rumours have it saying that they could be the Skytrax 2021 Airline of the Year!
This has the makings of an awesome "American Greed" episode even though it's Africa. I'd love to know where the money trail on this one leads. The president has to know this airline has no airplanes, so why sign this agreement?
@derek - You obviously haven't been to Roberts anytime recently. The runway is completely refurbished (although the ILS calibration could use a bit of work) and the new terminal is one of the nicest small airports in the region with multiple jetways and an excellent lounge.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mvh7j9juY4T6Tweq9
Spriggs is also undergoing renovation which was supposed to be complete by mid-2020 but has been delayed for obvious reasons. That renovation involved extending the runway and the installation of navaids to enable regional jet operations. Hopefully will be ready by next year.
HAH. I completely forgot about Miss Teen South Carolina. Thanks for bringing it back!
This is all a very nice way to siphon off Liberian public money, you gotta say. Starting an airline in this time? Hope those pilots are trained in time 😉
Ben, have you covered some hotel management changes in the UAE? Emirates Palace now by Mandarin Oriental, and the hotel at Etihad Towers’ (prev. Jumeirah) now managed by Conrad? You can update them to help points spenders, maybe
@Sean M. Oh my! What have they done to Roberts?! They deserve an Emirates A380 daily to DXB and a Delta 777 to JFK!
@ Derek
Well don't joke: For decades they had a daily Panam 747 to /from JFK. The route was JFK - DKR (old Dakar airport) - ROB (Monrovia) - LOS (Lagos) - NBO (Nairobi). I am not sure whether Delta ever took over for some time.
I used it many times. It probably was one of Panam's most unpleasant routes, with F seats both in Monrovia and Lagos regularly snatched from boarding passengers and given to anybody who paid a "dash", passengers regularly disappearing during the trip between Monrovia and the airport (far away), and a strange cabin crew announcement landing in Lagos "Transit passengers to... (Monrovia or Narobi) may disembark if they wish but we strongly advise them not to. I always wondered 1) how they got away with it and 2) why they simply did not forbid disembarking. I probably still have the Panam menus from the time.
As to the former Liberian airline, I have seen a few plane caracasses but am not sure it ever really existed, given that it was a domestic airline and that Liberia doesn't have other airports than the 2 in Monrovia. More likely than not, the planes were only used to smuggle arms into the country and diamonds out. Tough place if there ever was one...
The comments are hilarious. You guys know so little about Liberia to be making these outrageous comments, lol.
@Lucky Thank you for the background check.
Once again Chinese envolved this.Why I said once again?
The ignorance of Liberia exhibited in a lot comments above is astounding.
Suffice to say if this project does get off the ground (pun intended) it will good for Liberia and the region.
One day you will wish to travel to Liberia and you will be on a waiting list for years. Laugh all you want now, but it is one of the most beautiful places in Africa. International airlines will scramble for spots at Robert's International Airport. Watch and see.
Most of the comments above are from non-Liberians, who have never been to the country.
Will the legacy MD-11 from World that did Houston-Atlanta-Angola be wet-leased?
Well.. Most nasty comments were from hopeless opposition party members who knew they were cut off their regular cake. Waoh...cake, sweet cake they miss too much and are upset they want free cake back between their cheeks... But no thanks... No cake...go straight home...
Having said that, I went to Liberia twice this year and it's still like a war zone. Every two or at the most five kilometres is a road block and terrible looking people looking into your pockets as if your pockets were made for them
They will accuse you of being with diamonds as you leave and carrying cocaine as your u come in. To save your head, bless your soul, you must PAY. I was wondering what the use for a president was in the first place, because those boys should be sent to go and work, instead of harassing visitors who could have loved to bring investors to the country.
They harassed me so much, and stole lots of stuff from me. I am too disappointed in the Sirleaf woman who did almost nothing after changing the law so she could be there for twelve whole years. Nothing done. No roads, nothing.
This WEAH guy is like starting a New Country, because I saw nothing the old woman was able to achieve, order than post former rebels in every corner.
WEAH must remove them and send them to some farms and make money. Let themselves stop creating hate for their country. I honestly don't wanna be there again. It's like the wars are still hanging out with those criminals everywhere there using government uniforms.
There's a time for everything in Life. Rome was not built overnight.
As they say in Liberia, "One fine day" Liberia will resurrect to its rightful standing in the world. Unfortunately, our leaders have not always made the right choices. But let me remind you this, "he who is without...cast the first stone." Believe Again!
https://youtu.be/Jhxoe8MI2U8
Sad times for LIBERIA. We are yet to get Lonestar Airways off the ground and other flights are cancelling their routes to LIBERIA.