South African Airways is committed to the year of return

Company News of Saturday, July 13, 2019

Source: goldstreetbusiness.com

2019-07-13

Last September, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo declared and officially launched "Year of Return, Ghana 2019" for Africans in the global diaspora. This gives all Africans in the diaspora new motivation to engage more with their families in their home country on the continent.

South African Airways (SAA) plays a vital role in enabling African Americans, and other Africans aspiring to become their home country, to use Ghana's efficient gateway, where they must be welcomed at home. This will allow them to interact with their rich history and culture on a personal level.

It's been over 400 years since the first slave ship landed in the Caribbean, including America up to 40 million Africans were brought to the American continent, traded for the first time. Free work to work in plantations that made fortune the owners of slaves.

The slaves headed for the ships feared by the "gate of no return", like that of Elmina Castle, Ghana, to be forced to live in slavery. It was the last time that slaves set foot on their homeland before being permanently separated from their family and their country of origin.

Learn more about their origins and their families in their home country was a moving experience for African Americans who chose to return home. SAA has never been as proud as this year when our offer – to serve as a bridge between our African-American brothers and sisters, as well as other descendants of Africans living in the United States with the motherland – has been so well received.

SAA also recently won the airline's award of the year at the 2018 National Tourism Awards of Ghana.

SAA operates daily flights between Johannesburg and Accra, with five of these flights continuing to Washington; and two flights operating via Dakar, Senegal to Washington Dulles.

There are also convenient connections to and from more than 100 cities in the United States and Canada via its Star Alliance partner, United Airlines, via Washington Dulles International Airport.

The Memorandum of Understanding with Africa World Airlines (AWA), a Ghanaian partner of SAA, has helped improve Accra's connectivity in West Africa.

The flight schedule for SAA is as follows (all times are local):