{"id":3727,"date":"2014-03-04T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2014-03-04T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:02:51","slug":"air-traffic-controllers-at-kotoka-internal-airport-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"Air Traffic Controllers at Kotoka Internal airport on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3730\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kotoka-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3730\" alt=\"Kotoka International Airport\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kotoka-1.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kotoka International Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hundreds of passengers have been stranded at the\u00a0Kotoka International Airport due to a sit-down strike by\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Air Traffic Controllers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The strike has led to all local flights being grounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Operating Officer of Africa World Airline, a domestic airline company confirmed the development on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Apiggy Afenu explained that news of the industrial action was relayed to the various local airlines in the early hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the situation is \u201ca little bit chaotic but people are calm because they know what is happening is beyond the control of the airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Afenu also disclosed the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the employers of the Air Traffic Controllers when contacted have been unable to give a definite answer on how long the situation will persist.<\/p>\n<p>Air Traffic Controllers are the gate keepers who authorize the takeoff and landing of aircrafts that come into a country\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Mr. Afenu, their job function \u201cis very, very important\u201d and therefore urged the GCAA to address their concerns for work to resume.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of passengers have been stranded at the\u00a0Kotoka International Airport due to a sit-down strike by\u00a0Air Traffic Controllers. The strike has led to all local flights being grounded. The Chief Operating Officer of Africa World Airline, a domestic airline company confirmed the development on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday. Apiggy Afenu explained that news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23,38,4],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-kwesi-annin","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}