New (Strange) Airline Alert: Goldstar Air To Fly From Baltimore To Accra

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: November 8, 2016

18 comments

Air Transport World has the story of a new Ghana-based airline, Goldstar Air, that is planning on launching flights between Accra and Baltimore in the first quarter of 2017.

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Per the article:

New Ghanaian carrier Goldstar Air plans to start services to Baltimore Washington International (BWI) in 1Q 2017, according to CEO Eric Bannerman.

The small West African nation has lacked a national long-haul carrier since Ghana Airways, one of Africa’s oldest airlines, ceased flying in December 2015.

The new carrier, which anticipates an air operator’s certificate in December, plans to start services in February or March 2017, Bannerman said.

I had never heard of this airline before, so was intrigued. I started by looking at their Wikipedia page, and then by looking at their website. The (poorly) photoshopped picture the airline uses on their website certainly doesn’t instill much confidence. 😉

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Apparently the airline will operate three 767-300 aircraft and two 737-300 aircraft… so it’s a bit odd that the other picture on Goldstar’s website is of a photoshopped 777, which they apparently don’t plan on operating. I’ve read some reports suggesting that they’ll also eventually get a 777, though I haven’t seen that officially confirmed from the airline yet.

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Goldstar Air apparently has lofty expansion goals beyond Baltimore. In addition to short-haul destinations, they want to fly to Guangzhou, Dubai, London, Baltimore, and beyond. Based on the below map, it looks like they’re confusing the location of a few places, including Guangzhou, Senegal, and Liberia.

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Perhaps even more crazy than the airlines’ initial plans is that they eventually want to operate flights from Baltimore and London to the Caribbean:

Our European hub will be Stansted airport which will service flights going to Accra and the Caribbean, making some pick ups in some European cities before its destination in the Caribbean. Our hub in the Caribbean will service flights to Baltimore and Stansted. whiles the Accra hub services West Africa, Dubai and Guangzhou, Baltimore hub will as well service flights to Accra and the Caribbean.

I sort of feel like we’re being trolled here… maybe?

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Steve Guest

November 12, 2016, 8:26 pm

Hmm.....can you say EU blacklisting waiting to happen? Assuming that it's not the airline equivalent of a Nigerian email scam. Regardless, I only travel to Africa for work and we're not allowed on any airline based in sub-Saharan Africa except Kenyan, Ethiopian and South African. I have always just connected through on Air France or British Airways.

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M. Adjei Guest

November 10, 2016, 5:47 pm

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M. Adjei Guest

November 10, 2016, 5:22 pm

IGNORANT and BASELESS COMMENTS: An image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc. (Photoshop) is one of the leaders in photo editing software's. The software allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital photos. The software is particularly popular amongst professional photographers and graphic designers, so what point? To those of you who are making issues out how do you suggest we advertise without Photoshop? there might be errors since we are using it on a computer and using it on computer is the only confidential medium to use and if have sturdy the fundamentals, the basics of computer you would have leant of the disadvantages and advantaged of computer you will know error is a key factor in the uses of computer. Yet i appreciate your comments, at least you have alert us on some few errors which have to be addressed and we will do our best to resolving it corrections Thank you.

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M. Adjei Guest

November 10, 2016, 5:08 pm

It's been quite interesting reading your comments, quite a few alleged issued by some of you is only to mislead the world and to tannish the image of Goldstar Air since we are aware at Goldstar that all these comic comments are doing of competitive airlines using the same Baltimore route and are very much secured of our coming because we have already taken the airways. It's amazing, At point in time, I thought it wasn't so necessary to respond to your lousy comments, because we are busy doing a lot and working so hard to be able to meet the deadline as we promised our honorable patrons to taking off early next year, January 2017. But what concerns me most and prompt me to respond is the dust i feel you through into people’s eyes and oblique impact it might make on the minds of our honorable patrons, the concern citizens of Goldstar Air and the world as a whole. To our honorable patrons, and particularly to SEAN M who made the comments before the last one, Goldstar is coming for real, you lousy comments will not set us back, statement on Google, reference to Barbados 2008, did not indicate any fraudulent activities or Human trafficking association with Mr. Eric Bahaman the CEO of Goldstar Air, We know you have turned the story other way round since you but it does not matter at all. At the moment the Airline (Goldstar Air) have all the necessary, documentation, qualification and License To operate as a Ghanaian base international airline. Funny enough, you started pulling as down a long time ago yet we kept rising night after night and by the grace of the God, we've gotten to the top, so all your doings never worked and still would never work. Goldstar is here for real an airline where you can experience more and spend less on tickets. God Bless Goldstar Air. M. Adjei Publication Coordinator Goldstar Air.

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Kiki Guest

November 8, 2016, 5:38 pm

Interesting observations by you lot!!!! Maybe the Plane is still under construction

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