Ghana’s Airports to Open Soon for Domestic Flights – Aviation Minister

Ghana’s Aviation Minister, Kofi Adda has hinted that airports may open for domestic flights this weekend.

To ensure this move does not lead to further spread of the covid-19 disease, the Minister explained that the Ghana Airport Company Limited has put in place precautionary measures at all airports in the country.

Speaking to the media during a disinfection exercise at the airport by waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited,  Kofi Adda said the reopening of Ghana’s airport for business will begin with allowing domestic flights to operate.

“The airport company, led by the port health officials would make sure that all the things that need to be installed to support the implementation of the protocol would take place. All the hand washing devices, sanitizers, and anything that needs to be done would be made available. And that would be checked by the airport company and port health officials to ensure that all that is in place before we start operating. We are deliberately doing this because we want to start domestic flights first.”

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“In all of Africa, we are the only country that closed down the airport and is about to begin so we have to make sure that we do it well and right so we can lead the way and set the example for other African countries to follow. Perhaps getting towards the weekend, we’ll now begin the domestic flights,” he noted.

The Minister also added that foreign embassies and commissions in the country who would want to evacuate their citizens will be allowed to do so under a special arrangement.

“Permission will be granted to foreign embassies who want to evacuate their personnel as we’ve been doing. As and when they get permission and bring their personnel here, we’ll do what we normally do to ensure that the right thing is done to get them out of the country”  he asserted.

Currently, Ghana's borders have been shut "until further notice" due to the pandemic.

The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa noted that, the borders will continually remain closed until the covid-19 pandemic situation is fully under control.