Domestic airline, Africa World Airlines (AWA), is set to commence flights to Takoradi with a maiden flight on May Day 2015.

The airline will provide two flights a day, three times weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with morning flights from Accra in the 7am window.

Africa World will also offer a quick 25minutes travel time on any of its 3 Embraer new and modern ERJ 145LR jets toTakoradi and plans to return within the hour of 4pm to pick up travellers thereby providing either a seamless day trip or a two nights business trip option to its travellers.

AWA offers safety, security, reliability, flexibility and price simplicity.

The Chief Operations Officer Apiigy Afenu confirmed that they had finalised all arrangements with the airforce base and were very pleased with the results of the due diligence audits.

The Chief Executive Officer of Africa World Airlines Mr Cheng Luo added that: “the chance we have been waiting for has arrived, where we are able to satisfy not only the business, government and non-government travelling community of Ghana but also the people and indigenes of the Western region looking for tourism and economic opportunities to network”.

The Head of Commercial Sales, Revenue and Marketing for AWA Katherine Tosan Woode said she was excited about the one stop shop corporate packages available for the busy travel market into and out of Takoradi as well as the partnership travel agencies and hotels that have chosen to come on board with AWA.

Selling commences on Monday the 20th of April and travel will begin in earnest from Monday 4th May after the maiden flight on 1st May 2015.