Airlines want to increase flight schedules to Ghana

The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) continues to receive applications from airlines to increase their flight frequencies to and from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) despite the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States.

The airlines include South Africa Airways, British Airways, Kenya Airways and Lufthansa that either want to operate daily flights or increase their schedules. This was made known by Captain Joe Boachie, Director General of GCAA during a courtesy call on him by the US Ambassador, Ms Nancy Powell at the KIA.

The Director General said apart from the duty-free shop and the Accra-US route that have experienced a fall in patronage all other services GCAA renders were on course.

Gambia, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe often fall on the GCAA for technical and security advice because it has US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) category one status.

The GCAA has given technical approval to two domestic airline operators and they would start business soon.

Captain Boakye thanked the US government for giving GCAA technical and financial assistance and expressed the hope that co-operation between the two would continue.

Ms Powell congratulated GCAA for stepping up security at the airport as well as self-financing some of its projects.