The Kumasi Airport will be a complete waste without the third phase and as a result may not be able to serve the intended purpose according to the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah.
Asamoah Gyan: "I can confirm 95% of work has been done and hopefully between December and latest by January 2019, the airlines will fully be operational,” The much anticipated Baby Jet Airlines is expected to fully begin operations in February.
Deputy Minister for Aviation, Kwabena Otchere Darko announced that Baby Jet Airline is among other Airlines expected to commence work next month. African countries including Ghana are under-served but have huge potential and therefore Qatar Airways is looking at Africa in a positive way by giving incentives to new entrants and other assistance to those who wanted to do business with Qatar. Qatar Airways, the national airline of Qatar, is expected to soon complete arrangements to fly Ghana this year.
“We have already gone far with talks with the Aviation Authorities in Ghana and will be flying to that country by middle of 2019”, Abkar Al-Baker, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Airline, told journalists in Doha. How to secure an passenger aircraft: Ghana explores sourcing aircraft for home-based carrier19/1/2019 Ghana is exploring the option of sourcing aircraft from Canada and Ethiopia to make up the fleet for the national home- based carrier, the Minister of Aviation, Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, has hinted.
Ghana will be operating its own home-based air carrier by the second quarter of this year, the Minister of Aviation, Mr Joseph Adda, has stated.
He said the ministry had already entered into an understanding with Ethiopian Airlines and was also engaging with some investors who wanted to participate in the effort. Passion Air has announced, suspending all flight operations to Takoradi until further notice, following its first flight to the capital city of Western region of Ghana, just December 2018.
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