Africa World Airline to fly Brazil from 2014

Local airline, Africa World Airline (AWA) has revealed it will begin flying to Brazil next year.

The airline which plans to plying that route by end of the first quarter of 2014 year said the move is part of its plans to cash in on the FIFA World Cup which take off in June next year in Brazil.

The move is also part of the local airline’s ambitious restructuring plan.

If this ambitious plan comes to being, the local airline will be the first to ply that route from Ghana.

Africa World Airline is the second airline to have gotten the nod to ply the Accra – Lagos route.

Its Chief Operations Officer, Appigy Afenu told Citi Business News, “because of our global ambitions, that is why we have to continue flying domestic…so by the end of the first quarter, we should be there [Brazil].”

There have been calls for local airline to move beyond plying the sub-Saharan route.

But despite its ambitious move, AWA says it will be cautious in the route it chooses to ply.

“We will be careful and deliberate and very, very selective in the markets we fly to. You should understand the economics of the industry…so we will not go to New York but people do not understand these things. They think that because you are an airline, you should fly anywhere…when the time comes, there must be a compelling reason for us to go before we go.”