President John Mahama has disclosed that there is a proposal to use the Ho Airport in the Volta Region as a first-class pilot training school for West Africa.
According to the president, this move will allow young people who are interested in training as pilots to go to Ho and train at the Ho Airport.
President Mahama revealed this when he was addressing the clergy from the Volta Region when they paid a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House.
He explained why flights to the Ho Airport was suspended.
“We built the Ho Airport with a lot of expectations that it will become a major commercial route for our domestic airlines and indeed one of the airlines started, that is Passion Air. Unfortunately, the traffic did not build up quickly as they expected and so they had to hold back and reappraise their strategy for the Volta Region. I actually tried to find out why and they were using two aircrafts, one is 70 passengers and one is I think 50 passengers or so.
“So, my advice to them was to start with a smaller aircraft and once the route develops then you can bring in a larger aircraft. So, I think they are reappraising their strategy and once they do that they might start flights to Ho again.”
He added that his government has plans to utilize the airport more as quickly as possible.
“But there is the proposition to use the Ho Airport as a pilot training school, a first-class pilot training school for West Africa, so that young people who are interested in training as pilots will come to Ho and train at the Ho Airport. That will help us to utilize the airport more. W are going to work on that so that we can utilize it as quickly as possible.”
“There is the proposition to use the Ho Airport as a pilot training school, a first-class pilot training school for West Africa, so that young people who are interested in training as pilots will come to Ho and train at the Ho Airport.” – Mahama#GraphicOnline pic.twitter.com/pH574ajenK
— DailyGraphic GraphicOnline (@Graphicgh) January 22, 2025
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