The Kumasi International Airport which is built to receive 800.000 passengers annually, is at 98% completion. The airport will be the second busiest airport in Ghana after Kotoka International Airport in Accra. According to Mr. Yaw Appiah Dankwa, Director of Planning and Project of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, the project is expected to be ready for operationalization by October 2022, owing to delays that made the previous June 2022 deadline impossible.
Kumasi Airport is a national airport in Ghana serving Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region. In 2021, the airport handled over 400,000 passengers and the upgrade undertaken by the government to enhance tourism in the Ashanti Region, it is said.
The 125 million euro project is being undertaken by a UK registered company, Messrs Contracta Construction, and financed by UKEF, Duetche Bank, and Santander.
Over the years, the airport had an increase in passenger traffic, and the expansion aims to serve the growing demand by adding capacity to serve international passengers. The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, said the project was part of a vision to expand the frontiers of the aviation industry in the country, and a dream to make Ghana an aviation hub in West Africa.
