Passengers at Kumasi Airport made to walk in rain

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williams Jumapo 8 years ago

Simply madness

Simply madness
MY COMMENT 8 years ago

WE ARE SO BACKWARD

WE ARE SO BACKWARD
CORNEY 8 years ago

Which part of the world do you live at,have you ever been to any airport after they dumped you in the country you live in?
That is not a strange practice and it is no news,we have a number of minutes that passengers can stay ...
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Which part of the world do you live at,have you ever been to any airport after they dumped you in the country you live in?
That is not a strange practice and it is no news,we have a number of minutes that passengers can stay on airplane,so rain or shine they have to go for others to board the flight.
It is done everywhere including all the major airports in America for what is called commuter planes,most of them don't even provide umbrellas for the passengers,let us be glad that at least the airline provided them with umbrellas which they are not obligated to do,rain is nature which the airline has no control over,the umbrella was just a courtesy given the passengers.
Let us stop displaying our ignorance,we are rather making mockery of ourselves.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

Thank you.

Thank you.
OSEI TUTU TAWIAH 8 years ago

Too know Trokosis who don't know shit but always blabbing. What kind of international airport allows people to walk in rain

Too know Trokosis who don't know shit but always blabbing. What kind of international airport allows people to walk in rain
Asamoa 8 years ago

This is a most stupid comment. Only in Ghana or some African country do passengers disembark into rain. Ghanaians may not know better but you have foreigners on that flight. If you are a business woman or man coming to do bu ...
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This is a most stupid comment. Only in Ghana or some African country do passengers disembark into rain. Ghanaians may not know better but you have foreigners on that flight. If you are a business woman or man coming to do business in Ghana you come off that plane losing confidence in the environment you are coming to do business in.
Baababora 8 years ago

Please stop calling this Airstrip an International Airport. Its disgraceful. GACL please what is the ICAO definition of an International Airport? Why cant you stop lying to Ghanaians , haba. This country? Length of Runway , a ...
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Please stop calling this Airstrip an International Airport. Its disgraceful. GACL please what is the ICAO definition of an International Airport? Why cant you stop lying to Ghanaians , haba. This country? Length of Runway , and facelift do not make an International Airport. Come clean GACL or GCAA.
Joey Boy 8 years ago

Is this news? Is this the first time passengers have walked in the rain? This has been going on for ages because the aircraft cannot taxi to the entrance of the arrival hall at the Kumasi " so-called" international airport. F ...
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Is this news? Is this the first time passengers have walked in the rain? This has been going on for ages because the aircraft cannot taxi to the entrance of the arrival hall at the Kumasi " so-called" international airport. For all you know, funds may have been voted to correct this wrong but perhaps found its way into an individual's account. That is Ghana for you.
Nii Akwei 8 years ago

A landing strip if you ask me.

A landing strip if you ask me.
Jam 8 years ago

What is wrong with that ?even here in Germany it happens sometimes

What is wrong with that ?even here in Germany it happens sometimes
Stan Dogbe 8 years ago

lnternational Airport indeed !

lnternational Airport indeed !
Kotokoli John 8 years ago

where in Germany?Dont be ignorant.Even a village airport in Bad Bramstedt or Lubeck looks 1000 times better than the so-called 29 million-Dollar Flugplatz in Kumasi.Come again!!!!

where in Germany?Dont be ignorant.Even a village airport in Bad Bramstedt or Lubeck looks 1000 times better than the so-called 29 million-Dollar Flugplatz in Kumasi.Come again!!!!
ROGUE LAWYER 8 years ago

even animals think more deep and sensible than Ghana leaders-
upon all the global influence of otumfour look at what is happening at your backyard.

even animals think more deep and sensible than Ghana leaders-
upon all the global influence of otumfour look at what is happening at your backyard.
George Nutsugah 8 years ago

The length of tarmac at the Kumasi airport is not long enough to qualify as an international airport. It is still a local airport after spending almost US$25milion for provision lights and rehabilitation of the tarmac.

The length of tarmac at the Kumasi airport is not long enough to qualify as an international airport. It is still a local airport after spending almost US$25milion for provision lights and rehabilitation of the tarmac.
pkirks 8 years ago

This is no news.

This is no news.
NANA BONSU. 8 years ago

Come on, guys. This is not unusual. I have walked in the rain and in the snow from aircraft to arrival hall a number of times in winter. This has been at international airports in Milan,Frankfurt, Geneva and Vienna. Whether K ...
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Come on, guys. This is not unusual. I have walked in the rain and in the snow from aircraft to arrival hall a number of times in winter. This has been at international airports in Milan,Frankfurt, Geneva and Vienna. Whether Kumasi airport has attained international status or not, it is not always the case that there are buses to take passengers from the tarmac to the terminal. Go easy, Mr. Journalist.
nana sarpong Kumankoma 8 years ago

,Is it the passengers walking in the rain or or the security of the airport
This morning Brussels airport had been bombed Without permission you film an airport and you think you are right,
This is a the Ghanaian journalis ...
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,Is it the passengers walking in the rain or or the security of the airport
This morning Brussels airport had been bombed Without permission you film an airport and you think you are right,
This is a the Ghanaian journalist for you
Kofi 8 years ago

Even better airports allow picture taking. Who is interested in blowing this village park?

Even better airports allow picture taking. Who is interested in blowing this village park?
Yaw Yeboah 8 years ago

Nana Bonsu, you have highlighted some good points regarding travelling to International Airports in Europe while it is raining. This story is much ado
about nothing.

Nana Bonsu, you have highlighted some good points regarding travelling to International Airports in Europe while it is raining. This story is much ado
about nothing.
sam 8 years ago

no Ghana airport has a tunnel where the arrival plane is parked for passengers to walk through as we see in foreign airports like heathrow and even murtala airport in Nigeria. so what do you expect from the iarline or did the ...
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no Ghana airport has a tunnel where the arrival plane is parked for passengers to walk through as we see in foreign airports like heathrow and even murtala airport in Nigeria. so what do you expect from the iarline or did the passengers expect to remain on board till the rain stop not forgetting the fact that plane has schedule. even if you arrive at kotoka and is raining ,you will have to walk down to the awaiting shuttle meaning you get a bit wet.
the only solution is the airport have to build gate tunnels to avoid these kind of occurance. I also think under no circumstance does kumasi airport qualify as international airport considering the facilities they have. when plane arrives,someone has to you use a push truck to offload the bags and push it to arrival hall which has a tiny conveyer. The government spent 25M USD in the name of renovating the airport but it was only the termac which was renovated. God have mercy of us a myopic country who cannot look beyond self interest.
Antonio 8 years ago

It's absolutely absurd to be a Ghanaian. We don't know our rights. Face lift my foot! Travel to south Africa and see how the government is working to improve life of the citizens, social intervention programmes. Good drinking ...
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It's absolutely absurd to be a Ghanaian. We don't know our rights. Face lift my foot! Travel to south Africa and see how the government is working to improve life of the citizens, social intervention programmes. Good drinking water, human dignity, child welfare just to mention few. Travelling to Ghana international airport is just like park stations in Johannesburg, I can compare to shit Ghanaians describe as an international airport to Melbourne Victoria bus park. Come on guys what we say is enough is still not enough. We get common, water, electricity, roads then we are happy forgetting it's our basic right. Mahama is a damn crook and criminal and Ghanaians must wake up and reason like others. Vote him out and pave way for competent Nana Akkufo Addo to take charge.
qwaku gee 8 years ago

Useless mahama spending the money on toto can't even afford to buy a bus for the airport but can spend over a million dollars on campaign buses

Useless mahama spending the money on toto can't even afford to buy a bus for the airport but can spend over a million dollars on campaign buses
Alex London 8 years ago

What is really worrying in this story the action of the Police. It appears in Ghana any stupid fool in authority can call police to come and arrest you.They have no intelligence to ask for the reasons arrest. They have no br ...
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What is really worrying in this story the action of the Police. It appears in Ghana any stupid fool in authority can call police to come and arrest you.They have no intelligence to ask for the reasons arrest. They have no brain to decide whether or not what person to be arrested has done is deserves an arrest.
Therefore, these baffoons are using police
Baababora 8 years ago

I really do not know why anybody calla Kumasi Airport an International Airport. To qualify as an Int Airport, you must hane Immigration, Customs .Port Health and quarantine etc. Does Kumasi have these ? A very big no, so ther ...
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I really do not know why anybody calla Kumasi Airport an International Airport. To qualify as an Int Airport, you must hane Immigration, Customs .Port Health and quarantine etc. Does Kumasi have these ? A very big no, so therefore Kumasi is not an International Airport, forget all the garbage about facelift etc. Anyway you cannot walk 100 meters on the tarmac in Gatwick, Schipol , JFK .These are the real Int. Airports.
K O Y Nash 8 years ago

Because there is no civilization in the country ,mahama and his brother and friends stealing the country, robbing Ghana. No one say nothing because there is no laws in Ghana! Where there is no law there is no civilization!

Because there is no civilization in the country ,mahama and his brother and friends stealing the country, robbing Ghana. No one say nothing because there is no laws in Ghana! Where there is no law there is no civilization!
abu 8 years ago

Trust the ashanti region to blame and brand Mahama a failure .Constant acts of sabotage always steming from the ashanti region as far as an akan is not in leadership position.

Trust the ashanti region to blame and brand Mahama a failure .Constant acts of sabotage always steming from the ashanti region as far as an akan is not in leadership position.
Kofi 8 years ago

No comment!

No comment!
Kwakye. 8 years ago

Ha ha ha. Kumasi INTERNATIONAL airport! So so talk talk, Anum dwa nkoaa na yenim. We talk too much and wallow in mediocrity. Even in Africa, apart from OR Tambo Intl Airport in S/A, a visit to Jomo Kenyatta Intl. Airport in N ...
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Ha ha ha. Kumasi INTERNATIONAL airport! So so talk talk, Anum dwa nkoaa na yenim. We talk too much and wallow in mediocrity. Even in Africa, apart from OR Tambo Intl Airport in S/A, a visit to Jomo Kenyatta Intl. Airport in Nairobi would tell you how far Ghana is BACKWARD. And our leaders travel a lot to other African countries and beyond. Don't they see what's happening out there? Every thing is archaic, why? All we have specialised is sika die basa basa. Cry my beloved country. I tell you the refurbishment of KSI Airport (i refuse to recognise it as International) must have cost the nation millions of US dollars (inflated cost as usual) and we can't purchase one or two buses to bus passengers to the aircraft. Animguase. What impression are we giving to foreign visitors into the country? THE BLACK STAR OF AFRICA indeed. Travel and see.
Martin 8 years ago

The passengers who took umbrage at the mere fact of the airline officials providing them with umbrellas to walk in the rain from the plane to the tarmac, a distance of about a hundred meters, have warped sense of entitlement. ...
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The passengers who took umbrage at the mere fact of the airline officials providing them with umbrellas to walk in the rain from the plane to the tarmac, a distance of about a hundred meters, have warped sense of entitlement. Ghanaians are always looking for something to complain about.The airlines did what it could under those circumstances.
KnYc(USMC) 8 years ago

We have this useless government call Ndc propaganda machine, spend $29 millions to upgrade this airport and for got to buy shuttle bus. This tells you the kind of stupid people in our government. The most incompetent governme ...
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We have this useless government call Ndc propaganda machine, spend $29 millions to upgrade this airport and for got to buy shuttle bus. This tells you the kind of stupid people in our government. The most incompetent government in Ghana history, useless from the president to the idiotic ministers who don't have projective ideas to run a country. No wonder common brochures, ndc criminals could not proof read it. Come November 7, Ghanaians will show their incompetent useless ndc government out of the door for them to continue their hopeless corruption ideas some where. Ndc just wasted $29 millions for nothing and you have people on this forum trying to justified it. Stop your moron idiotic ideas and put country first.
Kofi Amoako 8 years ago

Astounding that a whole brand new airport with all modern facilities was built for 25 million dollars in another country but we spent 29 million dollars for renovations and yet the airport is still dysfunctional. Incompetence ...
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Astounding that a whole brand new airport with all modern facilities was built for 25 million dollars in another country but we spent 29 million dollars for renovations and yet the airport is still dysfunctional. Incompetence, incompetence and incompetent Dramani Gari Mahama!
Thhommas 8 years ago

29 million dollars for a face-lift of an airport? ?? That is ridiculous! !

29 million dollars for a face-lift of an airport? ?? That is ridiculous! !
Kwame Safo 8 years ago

From the President right down to the state and public institutions and to a large extent Ghanaians in general there is a total leadership failure. What a mess!

From the President right down to the state and public institutions and to a large extent Ghanaians in general there is a total leadership failure. What a mess!
KAAJI 8 years ago

What happens to the mahami international airport in Kumasi at the cost of Euro 29 million.Shameless mahami.

What happens to the mahami international airport in Kumasi at the cost of Euro 29 million.Shameless mahami.

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