Flights to Tamale and Kumasi still remain grounded due to the harmattan weather.
The severe harmattan weather pattern which commenced late last year led to local airlines cancelling flights and recording heavy losses.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Ktot7RCSUDspJHyftMDb9tKqc4gy6kXZ”]The Ghana Meteorological Agency had earlier asserted that the situation will normalize by the end of last week.
In an interview with Citi Business News, Chief Executive Officer of Starbow Airlines, James Eric Antwi said with the exception of Takoradi they are still having challenges travelling to Tamale and Kumasi.
“The harmattan has come back for the past week we have not been able to go to Tamale, Kumasi because the situation is still bad. It was only Takoradi we were able to travel to. It is too bad we had the assurance that we were going to be able to travel to Kumasi and Tamale today as the weather is very bad as it is way below limit.” He said.
James Eric Antwi added, “From the information we have, we are told the weather will improve tomorrow (Wednesday) so we will see what will happen as this is having great toll on our revenues.
Citi Business News understands domestic airline, Africa World Airlines made some flights to Tamale on Tuesday. It is however yet to commence flight to Kumasi.
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By: Norvan Acquah-Hayford/citifmonline.com/Ghana