Private aviation charter company McDan Aviation has denied rumors that its private jet terminal at Kotoka International Airport was recently closed due to a $3 million debt owed to the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL). The business explained that a land purchase from GACL, which is presently the subject of legal action, accounts for $2 million of the declared debt. Kweku Ampromfi, the CEO of McDan Group, stated in an interview with Channel One News that the company has already paid a portion of the unpaid terminal fees and that it hopes GACL will soon reopen the private jet terminal for business. “We don’t owe $3 million at the terminal,” he said.
He stated, “We do not owe $3 million at the terminal. There are 3 things we have been in discussion with Ghana Airport Company. The tunnel is one, we also have a piece of land we acquired from them close to the Action Chapel area for which they demand grand rights.”
Ampromfi further clarified, “The bulk of what is supposedly owed them is cut from that but we have been in conversation with them because that land even though we acquired it from Ghana Airport, it is the third party that acquired the same land and got their documentation through the Lands Commission so it is under litigation. So we have told Ghana Airport Company, several times we have had conversations with them, that because it is under litigation, let’s suspend that for a moment until we clear the legal issues around it. The land is about $2 million thereabout.”
He added, “Until it is resolved in the court, it doesn’t make business sense for anybody to be paying any hefty sums of money. So we have had that conversation. We have communicated that several times to Ghana Airport.”
Background
The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) closed the McDan Aviation Private Jet Terminal citing an unpaid debt exceeding $3 million, which included land leases, rentals, and terminal charges that had accumulated over time. This closure occurred despite a Christmas deadline for payment. This incident marks the second time McDan Aviation’s private jet terminal has been shut down. In February 2022, GACL indefinitely barred the company from operating at Terminal 1 of Kotoka International Airport (KIA) due to operational breaches. McDan Aviation initially launched its private jet services on January 28, 2022.
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