{"id":443249,"date":"2017-12-03T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/awa-increases-flights-to-kumasi-tamale-as-demand-soars\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T11:21:31","slug":"awa-increases-flights-to-kumasi-tamale-as-demand-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/awa-increases-flights-to-kumasi-tamale-as-demand-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"AWA increases flights to Kumasi, Tamale as demand soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday,  3 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>thebftonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/80513897.295.jpg\" alt=\"AWA Flight\" title=\"AWA Flight\" width=\"295\" height=\"125\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>AWA has increased its Accra-Kumasi-Accra service from 5x per day to 6x per day<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512300091_674_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Indigenous airline, Africa World Airlines (AWA), the only airline currently providing domestic air services in the country, has increased its flight frequency between Accra and Kumasi, and Accra-Tamale, to help meet the increased demand.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the suspension of operations of Starbow\u2013the second domestic airline operator.<\/p>\n<p>AWA has increased its Accra-Kumasi-Accra service from 5x per day to 6x per day. The airline has also increased its Accra-Tamale-Accra service from 4x per day to 5x per day.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Kyereh, Head of Commercial for AWA told AviationGhana that &#8220;we have increased our frequency to help with the demand since the suspension of flight by Starbow. Accra-Kumasi-Accra has been increased from 5x per day to 6x per day. Accra-Tamale-Accra has also been increased from 4x per day to 5x per day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suspension of Starbow\u2019s service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Starbow has suspended its operations with immediate effect following an incident involving one of its Accra-Kumasi bound flight, Flight S9 104, on November 25, 2017, at 12:45, local time.<\/p>\n<p>The Accra-based airline has also made alternative arrangements for all guests with future arrangements to contact a dedicated line-024 500 0000  for immediate assistance.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on Saturday, November 25, 2017, said \u201cThe aircraft skidded off the runway during its take-off run. The aircraft was carrying 63 passengers and 5 crew. One passenger sustained minor injuries and is currently under observation at the clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency procedures have since been activated at the airport and investigations to establish the cause of the incident has begun. Meanwhile, operations at the airport are continuing normally,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us at Starbow at this time remain dedicated to our guests, our crew and their families. Their safety and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do, and we will cooperate fully with the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, and other agencies, to determine the cause of this incident. We hope to be able to provide further information in due course,\u201d the airline\u2019s CEO, Eric Antwi, said in the statement copied to the B&amp;FT.<\/p>\n<p>The Aviation Ministry, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), and other agencies are investigating the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Sunday, 3 December 2017 Source: thebftonline.com 2017-12-03 AWA has increased its Accra-Kumasi-Accra service from 5x per day to 6x per day Indigenous airline, Africa World Airlines (AWA), the only airline currently providing domestic air services in the country, has increased its flight frequency between Accra and Kumasi, and Accra-Tamale, to help meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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