Kumasi Int. Airport to be operational by June By Joojo Maapa | Ghana’s Minister for Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, says the “new” Kumasi International Airport will be operationalised by the end June 2024.
Mr. Asiamah, who toured the facility in the company of management and board members of the state-owned Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), says facility will be inaugurated in May, and test runs carried out for full operationalization in June, 2024.
“We are planning to commission this facility before the end of May. We think that all things being equal we will be able to commission the facility. But the fact that we commission doesn’t mean we will start operation. Because even if you commission it, you need to do more testing [ of the systems] and per the Ghana Airports Company, we are looking at the end of June [2024] to operationalise. All things being equal, that is our timeline,” he said.
Kumasi Airport Expansion works
Work on Phase Two (2) of the Kumasi Airport Project began in 2018. It included the construction of a new Terminal Building to handle one million passengers per annum, two boarding bridges, a road network, perimeter fence, a substation and parking lot among others. The cost of the expansion work was estimated at £66,350,000.
Phase three of the Kumasi Airport Expansion Project involves the extension of the existing runway pavement from 1,981 meters to 2,320 meters, construction of new taxi link and two Apron Parking Stands, an Air Traffic Control Building, and a Fire Station among others. The cost for this phase is estimated at £58,900,000.
The Kumasi Airport is currently served by two domestic carriers namely: Africa World Airlines (AWA) and Passion Air. The Project Contractor is Messrs Contracta Construction UK Ltd. Ghana: Kumasi Int. Airport to be operational by June
