{"id":9223,"date":"2021-03-03T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:08:10","slug":"why-ghana-threatened-british-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/community\/why-ghana-threatened-british-airways","title":{"rendered":"Why Ghana threatened British Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways flies to Accra, Ghana. Historically the airline has operated its Ghana service out of London Heathrow Airport, but for flights as of March 28, 2021, the airline had planned to operate the flight out of London Gatwick Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s government wasn\u2019t happy about this change. Gatwick is generally considered to be less premium than Heathrow, so the government called this change \u201cunfavorable\u201d towards Ghanaian passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s government decided to threaten British Airways with reciprocal action \u2014 if British Airways wanted to transfer the Ghana flight to Gatwick, then Ghana would require British Airways to use a less premium airport in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one small problem with the threat \u2014 Kotoka International Airport (ACC) in Accra is the only major international airport in the country, so there\u2019s not another airport the service could practically be moved to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways flies to Accra, Ghana. Historically the airline has operated its Ghana service out of London Heathrow Airport, but for flights as of March 28, 2021, the airline had planned to operate the flight out of London Gatwick Airport. 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Gatwick is generally considered to be less premium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":9224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Ghana threatened British Airways - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/community\/why-ghana-threatened-british-airways\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Ghana threatened British Airways\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"British Airways flies to Accra, Ghana. 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