Mahama’s proposed airline looks to South America, Caribbean as Ghana confronts mounting drug trafficking cases

President John Mahama’s plans for Ghana’s proposed national airline to explore routes to South America and the Caribbean are raising questions about the size of the potential passenger market and whether available traffic data support the proposed expansion.

Until detailed route-level passenger projections and the underlying feasibility studies are made public, it remains difficult to independently assess the size of the market for Ghana’s proposed direct air links with South America and the Caribbean.

The absence of a separate South America and Caribbean category means the publicly available figures do not provide enough information to establish existing passenger traffic between Ghana and individual destinations such as Brazil, Suriname, Argentina, Colombia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago or Barbados.