On May 10, 2024, the government plans to open the Kumasi Airport, which is now known as Nana Agyemang Prempeh I International Airport.

To officially launch the project, President Akufo-Addo will be joined by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transportation, and Yvonne Nana Afiriyie Opare, Managing Director of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, among other dignitaries.

After being commissioned on May 10, the Kumasi Airport is expected to begin full operations by June of this year.

The Ghana Airport Company Limited, which is currently in charge of the facility, is testing equipment that is necessary for both domestic and international flights.

The airport is prepared to handle the rising demand for air travel with a capacity of over Eight hundred thousand (800,000) passengers annually, mostly from the northern and middle belt regions.

Once the new terminal is operational, the contractors have disclosed that they plan to expand the runway and demolish outdated facilities.

During a recent project tour with Ghana Airport Company Limited management and board members, Transport Minister Kwaku Ofori Asiamah expressed satisfaction with the progress made.

In addition, he underlined the facility’s significance for the socioeconomic advancement of Ghana and the Ashanti Region as well as raised concerns about its long-term maintenance.

As they will no longer need to travel to Accra in order to access an international airport, he claimed that the opening of the airport will also lessen the stress of foreign visitors from Ashanti, Bono, Ahafo, and the Northern and Upper Regions of the nation.

Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, was recently paid a courtesy call at the Manhyia Palace by the Transport Minister and the Board and Management of the Ghana Airport Company Limited. He expressed gratitude to the government for the project’s successful completion.

A project like the International Airport, he said, will surely result in the creation of jobs and strengthen the local economy of the Ashanti Region given its thriving economic activities.

Phase II of the project started in 2018 and entails building a new terminal building that can accommodate one million passengers annually in addition to two boarding bridges, a road network, perimeter fencing, a substation, and parking lots.