Cathy really is a tremendous airline. I flew them to JNB in December of last year and had the pleasure of being the only passenger in First Class. To say the least I got tremendous service -the best flight that I have ever been on.

In Ghana I took an internal flight from Kumasi to Accra operated by the Ghanaian Air force. It was about thirty-five minutes but one of the most interesting flights I have ever been on.
The airport in Kumasi is typical for Africa. The road leading to the terminal building is four tarred lanes wide (only tarred road in the city) and manicured shrubs and streetlamps (sans bulbs) line the road. The terminal building is impressive-I mean there is an actual building which was dedicated by the ex-President Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings (picked about the habit of adding titles to his name from Idi Amin in Uganda) in 1993. The airport has two huge fire trucks for the three weekly 30-odd seat F-27 flights that come from Accra (a comment on the skill of the pilots perhaps). The airport had very modern baggage scanning devices but they were not plugged in and had they been it would not have mattered since electricity was in short supply.

Anyway I got to the airport at 4:30pm for a 5:30pm flight. At about 5:15pm we were told that the flight was delayed till 6pm. No problem still quicker than driving. Six rolls around and we were now told that the flight would leave the following morning at 6:45am because there was weather in-between Accra and Kumasi and then plane could not get around it (what about over). I head back into town with the airport manager who is kind enough to give me a lift. He is also kind enough to pick me up the following morning before he headed out to the airport to meet the flight (I was impressed with how friendly Ghanaians were throughout my time there).

The flight arrives at 7:30am and I board and take a seat in the first row of the plane and hanging on the wall is a notice, that I nicked because the wording is wonderful, which stated that the airline had paid its insurance premiums for the year. There was no flight attendant on this flight just an air force officer who sat in the passenger compartment. So we take-off and it is an uneventful flight down to Accra. As we start our decent into the Accra area a horrible smell wafts over the cabin. Turns out an old man in full Ashanti(sp?) dress (loin cloth) has had an accident (#2). He is in the row behind me and as I exit the plane I have to set over some of it. Well needless to say instead of suing for having to endure the smell and disgust of having to see the man with fecal matter running down his leg I asked the pilot how often this happen and he just bust a gut laughing at the incident. Needless to say I did not demand a reimbursement for my ticket because they got me to Accra-fourteen hours late but alive and in Africa (and in general) everything else is just icing.