{"id":19889,"date":"2022-04-09T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=19889"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:05:40","slug":"british-airways-flight-bound-for-accra-returns-to-london-over-malian-airspace-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/09\/british-airways-flight-bound-for-accra-returns-to-london-over-malian-airspace-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways flight bound for Accra returns to London over Malian airspace closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British Airways flight bound to land in Accra on Friday, April 8, has returned to London following airspace restrictions in Bamako, Mali.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), passengers of the outbound flight BA081 have been informed of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, British Airways will operate two flights on Saturday, April 9, 2022. Details of the additional flights are to be communicated to passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"st-inarticle-slot\">\n<div id=\"standard_2\" class=\"st-placement standard_2 inArticle\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10032061408 lazyloaded\" title=\"British Airways flight bound for Accra returns to London over Malian airspace closure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL.jpeg 760w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-300x297.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-303x300.jpeg 303w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-141x140.jpeg 141w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-126x125.jpeg 126w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-253x250.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-152x150.jpeg 152w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-429x424.jpeg 429w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-51x50.jpeg 51w\" alt=\"British Airways flight bound for Accra returns to London over Malian airspace closure\" width=\"760\" height=\"752\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL.jpeg 760w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-300x297.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-303x300.jpeg 303w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-141x140.jpeg 141w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-126x125.jpeg 126w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-253x250.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-152x150.jpeg 152w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-429x424.jpeg 429w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL-51x50.jpeg 51w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/British-Airways-flight-GCAA-GACL.jpeg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>\u201cBritish Airways Passenger Handling and Ticketing staff will be available this evening, Saturday, April 9, 2022 to offer assistance to affected passengers and also direct those who have been rebooked onto their carriers,\u201d a statement issued on Saturday by the GCAA and GACL said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the travelling public has been assured that British Airways would be provided with the needed assistance for the smooth facilitation of affected passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British Airways flight bound to land in Accra on Friday, April 8, has returned to London following airspace restrictions in Bamako, Mali. According to the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), passengers of the outbound flight BA081 have been informed of the incident. \u201cConsequently, British Airways will operate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,43,1],"tags":[4553,10870,5268,4430,11355,192,1052,8029,3684,5317,5794,3954,594],"class_list":["post-19889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-aviation","tag-british","tag-british-airways","tag-flight","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-airports-company-limited","tag-land","tag-london","tag-mali","tag-malian-airspace","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}