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The “No Payment, No entry” policy for inbound airline passengers, which was deferred last week at the instance of international airlines operating in the country, comes into effect on September 21. By this new policy, incoming airline passengers must pay online for the mandatory COVID-19 test upon arrival at Kotoka …

The Herald, has landed reports from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, painting a bad picture about the US$150 per a person COVID-19 testing of travellers arriving in Ghana by the private company; Frontier Healthcare. The issues range from illegal operations, extortion, lack of staff, tax avoidance among others, some of …

More than 9,000 Ghanaians and resident permit holders stranded abroad were evacuated into the country during the five months that the nation’s airspace was closed to commercial flight to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the closure of the country’s borders effective March 22, 2020 for …

The Kotoka International Airport on Tuesday, September 1 received its first batch of international commercial passengers after six months of closure due to COVID-19 pandemic. The facility was closed down in March as part of measures to curtail the spread of the virus through importation at Ghana’s borders. It was …

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) is expected to receive its first set of arrivals into the country as it begins operations today, Tuesday, 1 September 2020. The airport was closed to human traffic for some six months to prevent the importation of the coronavirus pandemic. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced the reopening of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) from Tuesday, September 1, 2020. This is after a thorough work by the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health. Akufo-Addo made this known during …

Management of the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) has debunked claims by former President John Mahama that the government intends to sell-off the facility to a foreign company. It has also described as incorrect, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer’s assertions that some US$600 million was invested in the …

Per the terms and conditions in the proposed strategic partnership agreement between the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) and TAM-SUMMA Consortium, a Turkish company, concerning the management of the Kotoka International Airport, it can be stated that the KIA is being sold, the Deputy General Secretary of the Public Services …

Reports reaching GhanaWeb indicate staff at the Kotoka International Airport are currently staging a protest over an alleged sale of the company. Per reports, the staff, who feel their livelihood is being threatened, have picketed at the premises of KIA to express their displeasure. Meanwhile, the Aviation Ministry in a …

The 245 Ghanaians illegally living in Kuwait who are expected to be deported back to Ghana today have arrived at Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport on a Kuwaiti aircraft. Starr News sources at the airport say the deportees arrived a short while ago and are undergoing arrival processes. …