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Comment by vorpalhex | Hacker News Reader

I kind of agree with Ghana here. Gotta maintain your planes. It's sad that a foreign country has to be the one making Delta do routine pmc.

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They aren't making them take care of the plane though. Delta is just routing the plane to go to European countries now instead. Delta dgaf

This plane is now flying LAX, JFK, Edinburgh, and Lisboa.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N195DN/history

As it did before. During the past three months only 10 (or about 6%) of its 170 flights have involved Ghana, either as source or destination. It's mostly been flying in US/EU.

Source: that URL, with an old free membership.

Here's a news article from Ghana regarding the whole thing, including photos of the official letter to Delta from their aviation authority, etc:

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Delta-Air...

They are making them take care of the plane, at least to the limits of their authority. It's not like they have much say about what a US-based airline does outside of their borders.

Makes sense for Ghana, there's likely far fewer direct flights to NYC than from, say, Paris, and transfers would add many hours as they're probably through Europe. Disruptions on this flight would have an outsized impact on diplomats and business execs.

Ghana has no reason to care about flights from the US to Europe, and also no power to regulate them. Just like the FAA presumably doesn’t get involved with flights between Ghana and other African countries.

They are telling Delta to do their homework better or they'll keep getting inconvenienced.

More importantly, this is an easy way for Ghana to say "get another damn plane on this route".

Strongly agree with Ghana. Seems like a reasonable way to stick up for yourself.

If you want to be more sure you're on a safe flight, fly over Ghana.

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