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World's biggest passenger plane makes technical stopover in Kotoka

 British Airways Flight A380 touched down at the Kotoka International Airport on Thursday September 29, 2022 for a technical stopover. The British Airways ferry flight (A380) from Johannesburg enroute to London Heathrow made a technical stop at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), making this the second time an A380 aircraft has operated or landed in Accra. The A380 is a large wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and only full-length double-deck jet airliner. The A380 has a standard seating layout for 555 passengers on two decks in a three-class configuration and needs about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of runway to take off fully loaded.   The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) announcing the technical stopover in a statement said "British Airways could not have made a better decision of choosing KIA as the preferred Airport within the sub-region for this vital technical stop." KIA is centrally located in the world...

Massive disinfection carried out at Kotoka International Airport

  The Ministry of Aviation (MoA) and Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) are leaving nothing to chance in their effort to ensure that the country’s airports are safe and secure in the midst of the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) It is the light of the above that the two state entities engaged waste management and disinfection experts, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), to undertake a massive disinfection exercise at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The two-hour exercise, which was carried out from Thursday, January 14, around 11:30 p.m., to Friday, January 15, 1:30 a.m., was to help rid the airport of Covid-19 tendencies. All facets of the airport including its open spaces were thoroughly disinfected. In addition, the Zoomlion disinfection crew dusted all touchable surfaces and gadgets of the airport. Speaking to the media, the Head of Vector Control Unit of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Reverend Ebenezer Kwame Addae, explained that the disinfection of the KIA had been necessitate...