I’m a sucker for airline startups, whether legitimate, or just someone spending a few hours (or several years) to create a website for a business model that makes no sense. I’ll let you guys guess which category this fits into…
Continue reading: Sentra Airways: Bizarre, Questionable New “Airline”
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Their IG posts are very interesting too. Like for example, see cherry blossoms in Accra with a picture of Mt.Fuji...
"No details have been announced about what plane the airline will use ..."
Ben, it's right there in the name of the airline. They will use a very small Nissan car.
If they are joining the travel industry they should know that no one is traveling to Manchester for the food...
That picture of Gold Star Airways with the oddly cropped/resized plane makes me laugh every time.
Ben, I agree this is bizarre and has a whiff of illegitimacy, like it's some kind of investment fraud scheme for unsophisticated Ghanians who might want a piece of a new "airline." It makes zero business sense.
Wow what a map, so Baltimore happens to be in Wisconsin or something 🙂
Should bring this map to my child's geography class!
How did Goldstar Airlines get every single city location so so wrong (except Accra and Dubai, and to a lesser extent Lagos and Abuja)? Chicago is going to be upset that it is now Baltimore Washington.
Just another scam, I don't why all of this airlines have something to do with Ghana, maybe is some kind of tax haven?
Haha I guess the Lagos cyber mob has shifted their business to Ghana these days.
@DianeJ
To be fair, the direction of every one of those lines for the Goldstar graphic do seem to point toward the right general direction.
It's almost like someone drew all the lines, then determined the city name text wouldn't fit attractively or evenly, and decided to rearrange everything later.
I would be taking a look at the new Air Italy if you are looking for new odd startups......
Seems to be a scam
They registered as a U.K. business per the Companies House website in March 2019 Their head office is in Bradford, West Yorkshire, not Ghana. Their last accounts were March 2020
Previous company name : majestic mallard airways 25 March 2019-January 2020
I'm so confused by your post? So Sierra Leone, Guinea, Gambia, etc. are actually in the Americas? And Guangzhou is really located in the Mideast?
Or are you saying that the true locations of those cities are somewhere along the lines they drew. Then apparently Guangzhou is in northern Russia someplace. Huh. Who knew?
LOL @ "The company’s social media presence is also interesting, promoting on Instagram how you can see “see Ghana in vivid detail with Sentra Airways,” while showing a picture of Mount Fuji."
@DianeJ
What you've described is essentially what I meant.
Sao Paulo is at least southwest from Accra on the map. Baltimore is to the northwest. Monrovia is to the west, and Lagos is to the east.
Guangzhou is the destination with the most obviously incorrect heading to me. However, I imagine that's due to spacing reasons on the map.
What really bugs me is that Baltimore/Washington and Gatwick/London aren't called out as being part of the USA.
So does anyone know what the play here is exactly? Why are these fake airlines cropping up (and why does Ghana attract so many of them)? Is it a scam or money laundering or what?
@David we’re one of the largest countries in West Africa (around 30 million) with a large diaspora population but no national carrier. The only direct service between Ghana and the U.K., where around 300,000 people of Ghanaian decent live, is provided by BA who offer a p**s poor and overpriced service that I believe Ben wrote about many years ago.
So people are trying to fill that void but they are unfortunately either total imbeciles or total scam artists.
Why do so many “airlines” want to fly to Ghana?
You have this headline but the text below doe snot answer that.
Any possibility this is a project for a college course? I can see a Professor (perhaps from Ghana) assigning as one option - “Create a business plan and web presence for a new airline offering to Ghana.” 😉
I am the accountable manager for Sentra Airways. The only scam here deliberately misrepresenting us is the author of this article.
The company has applied for AOC and AOL from the U.K authorities it also has a pending VAOC with the Ghanaian authorities. Contrarily to what is stated in the article.
We were scheduled to start ops this May since March of last year when we started the AOC process with the U.K CAA.
The global pandemic happened, and we had no choice to postpone our plans until Sept 21.
The pax from Man Acc is 45000 yearly as at 2019 data. double check your facts next time.
Heathrow- Acc is 195000 per annum of which 70% are pulled pax.
So, there are plenty of pax ready to use our service.
Pull basically means people travelling to London to use the direct services.
Our services will not be opened to just pax around man area but to all.
May be the author to concentrate on what he is good at.
BTW, we have A330-200 dry lease with Orix signed and sealed yet to be delivered.
The company currently has several SM adverts to trying to get the name out there.
Mount fuji is beside the point. The message drummed across is direct services from Man to ACC. Pictures to the busy working people is irrelevant as we noted from the advert which is generating not less than 100 traffic to our website. Just what we want!
New York route to be launched after Man-ACC.
It was our intentions to do all at a go but the U.K CAA recommended one step at a time hence why we are not yet launching our NY route.
Kobi you stated
'So people are trying to fill that void but they are unfortunately either total imbeciles or total scam artists'
Really? how can you be so judgmental about people you do not know or never met?
Social Media surely have interesting people with special skills set only suitable for SM.
The time is near. Watch the space guys!
We will soon be thanking all our critics and doubters for giving us the extra push.
We don’t want to tell you our intentions just yet instead we want to show you results.
Happy times ahead!
The time is near. Watch the space guys!
We will soon be thanking all our critics and doubters for giving us the extra push.
We don’t want to tell you our intentions just yet instead we want to show you results.
Happy times ahead!
Ismail...we have a long history with sending cargo to Ghana...we would be very interested in talking with you about this as we can give you very profitable revenue for your flights.....many thanks, clive montgomery
Clive Montgomery yes our team is interested in having a discussion with you. Please send an email to [email protected] and ask for head of commercials contact.
Speak to you soon.
BR.