This year’s event will be held in Accra, Ghana 16-18 July and hosted by Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), the same year that GACL will be opening their third terminal at Kotoka International Airport.
The line-up of speakers has been confirmed ahead of Routes Africa 2018 which will take place in Accra, Ghana, 16-18 July.
Names newly confirmed include:
- John Attafuah, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL)
- Charles Hanson Adu, Group Executive for Airport Operations, Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL)
- Akwasi Agyeman, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Tourism Authority
- Theodore Chikelu, the Managing Director and CEO of Jet Afrique
- Simon Allotey, the Director General of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority
These speakers will join leading industry experts already billed, such as:
- Tewolde Gebremariam, Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopian Airlines
- Edgardo Badiali, the Former CEO of Libyan Wings.
- Vuyani Jarana, Chief Executive Officer, South African Airways (SAA)
- Mory Camara, International Business Development Manager, OAG
- Richard Kyereh, Head of Commercial, Africa World Airlines
- Adam Wu , Chief Executive Officer, CBN Travel and MICE
- Edgardo Badiali, Former Chief Executive Officer, Libyan Wings
- Susan Kurland, Deputy Commissioner of Air Service Development – Chicago Dept.of Aviation – O'Hare and Midway International Airports
- Pumla Luhabe, Chief Commercial Officer, South African Airways (SAA)
- Ali Tounsi, Secretary General, ACI Africa
- Raphael Kuuchi, Vice President for Africa, IATA
- Yolanta Strikitsa, Director, Strikitsa Consulting
- Wilken Bellmann, Head of Network Planning and Scheduling, SunExpress
- Samson Fatokun, Area Manager, South-West Africa, IATA
Routes Africa, the intra-Africa route development forum, returns after a two year hiatus, due to demand from the route development community. The event, which will be the 12th Routes Africa, is the most long standing and established aviation forum within Africa, bringing together leading airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss air services to, from and within Africa.
This year’s event will be held in Accra, Ghana 16-18 July and hosted by Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), the same year that GACL will be opening their third terminal at Kotoka International Airport.
Mr. John Dekyem Attafuah, managing director, Ghana Airports Company Limited, said:
“Ghana Airports Company Limited is proud to host this year’s event. We promise you a well organised and productive conference, in a very conducive environment in our beautiful capital city of Accra.
Delegates should expect to experience the proverbial Ghanaian hospitality that we are well noted for and leave with memorable experiences of Ghana’s rich culture, heritage, sights and sounds.”
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