Virgin Atlantic will return to Ghana for the first time since 2013, with daily flights to Kotoka International Airport in the nation’s capital, Accra, from May 2025. The airline will provide much-needed competition on the Accra-London (Heathrow) route, which currently lacks a choice of routes between the two countries.
The UK is home to the third largest Ghanaian diaspora in the world, and the new service will respond to demand to visit friends and relatives. Around 10% of customers are also expected to connect through London onto Virgin Atlantic’s New York JFK service.
Launching on 1 May 2025, the daily service will operate on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft boasting the airline’s Upper Class, Premium and Economy Delight, Classic and Light cabins, and an onboard bar.
Accra is expected to be a very strong cargo route, and Virgin Atlantic will offer 30 tonnes of capacity on each flight carrying goods, such as fresh produce, between Ghana and key markets in the UK and US.

In other business news, Ghana’s cocoa regulator, COCOBOD, plans to increase the state-guaranteed price paid to its cocoa farmers for the 2024/25 crop season by nearly 45%. If confirmed, it would be the second increase in a row.
Earlier this year, Ghana followed fellow major cocoa producer Côte d’Ivoire in raising the farm gate price of the commodity by 58% to reach 33,120 Ghana cedis (about 2,499 U.S. dollars) per ton.
The move is believed to help boost farmers’ incomes and deter bean smuggling out of the country.
Every year in September, the government announces new farm-gate prices for cocoa bags and tons for the new cocoa season, which is between September of the current year and August of the following year.
The price of cocoa soared sharply this year because of demand and troubles with the crop in West Africa due to plant disease and weather changes.