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Airport City enclave in Accra at night in 2020. Airport City Accra is an urban development centered around Kotoka International Airport. The development is promoted by Ghana Airports Company Limited on the principle that airports have ceased to be mere terminals, but rather economic growth outlets to promote trade and generate employment. [31]
Airport City Accra is an urban development within the airport enclave of Accra, [1] [2] centered around Kotoka International Airport. The development is promoted by Ghana Airports Company Limited on the principle that airports have ceased to be mere terminals, but rather economic growth outlets to promote trade and generate employment.
Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) is a state-owned company with responsibility for developing, maintaining, planning, and managing airports in Ghana. It was registered in 2006 and presently manages airports such as Kotoka International Airport, Nana Agyemang Prempeh I International Airport, Tamale International Airport, Wa Airport, Sunyani Airport, Ho Airport and other airstrips in Ghana. [2]
Location ICAO IATA Airport name Accra: DGAA: ACC: Kotoka International Airport: Ada: DGAD: Ada Airstrip Bole: DGLB Bole Airstrip Ho: DGAH: HZO: Ho Airport: Kumasi: DGSI
Accra is served by Kotoka International Airport, which has both civil and military uses. [72] Located 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from downtown Accra, the airport handles all of the city's scheduled passenger services. There are plans to build a second airport to relieve the aviation pressure on the Kotoka International Airport.
In November 2004, PNDC Law 151, was amended with the enactment of the Ghana Civil Aviation Act, 2004 (Act 678). The Act mandated the ceding of the airport management function of GCAA to a new entity to enable the Authority focus on its core mandate of regulating the air transport industry and providing air navigation services.
Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Kumasi International Airport in Kumasi, and Sekondi-Takoradi Airport in Sekondi-Takoradi. On July 4, 1958, the Ghanaian government established Ghana Airways connecting Ghana with other countries. By the mid-1990s, Ghana Airways operated international scheduled passenger and cargo service to numerous ...
A Ghana Airways Vickers VC-10 at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in 1965 A Ghana Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 at Zürich Airport in 1988. Ghana Airways was founded on 4 July 1958 by the government of Ghana with a start-up capital of £400,000, with the government holding a 60 percent stake and BOAC holding the remainder.