{"id":213900,"date":"2025-11-17T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-united-nigeria-airlines-launches-first-international-operations-honors-j-j-rawlings\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:17:02","slug":"ghana-united-nigeria-airlines-launches-first-international-operations-honors-j-j-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-united-nigeria-airlines-launches-first-international-operations-honors-j-j-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: United Nigeria Airlines Launches First International Operations, Honors J.J. Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em>United Nigeria Airlines<\/em> has officially launched its first international operations, offering direct flights between <em>Nigeria and Ghana<\/em>, marking a significant expansion of the carrier&#8217;s services. The launch also paid tribute to the late former Ghanaian President, Flight Lieutenant <em>Jerry John Rawlings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The inaugural service, which began on Monday at <strong>Kotoka International Airport (KIA)<\/strong>, featured the dedication of the airline&#8217;s first international aircraft to Rawlings, recognizing his legacy as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140719.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nigeria Airlines has officially launched its first international operations, offering direct flights between Nigeria and Ghana, marking a significant expansion of the carrier&#8217;s services. The launch also paid tribute to the late former Ghanaian President, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings. The inaugural service, which began on Monday at Kotoka International Airport (KIA), featured the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,11792,4508,4509,12913,4337,52891,5957,257,4687,6345,24665,254,7866],"class_list":["post-213900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airlines","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-honors","tag-international","tag-j-j","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-operations","tag-rawlings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}