The primary ITA Airlines flight from Rome Fiumicino arrived at Kotoka Global Airport in Accra, Ghana. The plane, an Airbus A321neo, was once welcomed with a water arch salute.
The inaugural ITA Airlines flight from Accra Airport to Rome Fiumicino departed at 11:45 p.m. native time.
To have a good time the release of this new intercontinental path, the Corporate’s first vacation spot in sub-Saharan Africa, an increasingly more strategic marketplace, a ribbon-cutting rite was once held on the arrival gate C8 in Terminal 3 of Accra Airport. The rite was once attended by way of Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare, Managing Director for Ghana Airports Corporate Restricted, Daniela d’Orlandi, Ambassador of Italy to Ghana and Togo, Merene Benyah, Ambassador of Ghana to Italy, Rev Stephen Wilfred Arthur, Director, Industry Building and Financial Laws of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Pierfrancesco Carino, Vice President Global Gross sales ITA Airlines, and Benedetto Mencaroni, Regional Supervisor for Asia, Center East, and Africa ITA Airlines.
“We’re proud to inaugurate the brand new direct flight between Accra and Rome,” stated Emiliana Limosani, Leader Industrial Officer of ITA Airlines and CEO of Volare. “The release of this new flight, the one direct connection between Ghana and Italy, represents a vital step ahead for the Corporate: it’s the first new flight to the African continent, a marketplace with a really perfect doable, of the present Summer time and can permit ITA Airlines no longer handiest to realize a strategic access for point-to-point visitors but additionally to succeed in different locations inside each Nations, thereby combining recreational and industry commute.”
Reacting to the scoop,Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare, Managing Director of Ghana Airports Corporate Limitedon behalf of the Board, Control and Group of workers, expressed pleasure concerning the new airline whose access provides to the various portfolio of airways arriving and departing from Kotoka Global Airport. “We sit up for ITA Airlines’ inaugural flight on June 6, 2024, simply in time for the summer season height commute season’’, she stated. She additional confident of GACL’s readiness to facilitate operations and processes in operating collaboratively with all businesses on the airport along side ITA Airlines to offer passengers a easy commute enjoy via Kotoka Global Airport.
Daniela d’Orlandi, Ambassador of Italy to Ghana, welcomed: “The beginning of ITA Airlines’ direct connections between Accra and Rome will additional enhance the already superb collaborative courting between Italy and Ghana in all spaces and can deliver our peoples even nearer”.
Merene Benyah, Ambassador of Ghana to Italy stated: “This renewed direct flight provider by way of ITA Airlines is certainly a measure of the rising industry and business pursuits between Ghana and Italy; and can indisputably strengthen business, funding, tourism, and cultural hyperlinks between the 2 Nations. Ghana has ceaselessly been described because the gateway to Africa because of its strategic geographic location, democratic credentials, conducive industry surroundings, wholesome recognize for the rule of thumb of legislation, and the proverbial heat hospitality of its folks. The verdict of ITA Airlines to re-commence products and services between the 2 Nations is a testomony to this”.
The Accra–Rome path, the one direct connection between Ghana and Italy, is step one for the Corporate in setting up a better presence in West Africa, a key vacation spot for each recreational and company visitors. Following the Accra path, a brand new flight from Rome Fiumicino to Dakar might be inaugurated in July.
The brand new path operates with the next time table:
· Accra to Rome with 3 weekly frequencies, expanding to 4 in July: departure from Kotoka Global Airport is scheduled at 11:45 p.m. (native time), with arrival at Rome Fiumicino at 7:35 a.m. within the morning after departure from Ghana (native time).
· Rome to Accra with 3 weekly frequencies, expanding to 4 in July: departure from Rome Fiumicino is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. (native time) with arrival in Ghana at 7:15 p.m. (native time).
Flights to and from Accra might be operated with the brand new Airbus A321neo, a new-generation, technologically complex plane. The A321neo is the biggest plane within the Airbus A320neo circle of relatives and provides outstanding vary and function. Environment friendly and quiet, the brand new A321neo boasts 20% decrease gas intake and CO2 emissions consistent with seat. It’s the first narrow-body plane configured with 3 separate cabins: Industry Elegance (12 seats), Top class Economic system (12 seats), and Economic system (141 seats, together with 12 devoted to Convenience Economic system). The cabin interiors, fully designed by way of Walter de Silva, completely include the class and magnificence standard of Italy.
Unique options of the A321neo come with the Airspace Cabin with new colours and fabrics, the newest technology of seats, new ITA Airlines custom designed internal lighting fixtures and XL overhead containers. Each and every seat is provided with the newest leisure device, that includes “on-demand” video and audio, 17.3” (Industry),
15.6” (Top class Economic system) and 13.3” (Economic system) low reflectivity and 4K answer touchscreens for a easy, easy and intuitive consumer enjoy.
With this new path, ITA Airlines will perform 57 locations within the present summer time, together with 16 home, 26 world, and 15 intercontinental. Moreover, right through the height of the summer season, the airline will fly to twelve further seasonal locations, decided on amongst the preferred Mediterranean vacationer spots, together with Greece, Spain, Croatia, and the Italian islands, obtainable with direct flights from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate.
