At the International Air Transport Association (IATA) regional aviation forum in Accra in June, Ghana's Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia lamented the fact that “a business person from Freetown [Sierra Leone], for example, should travel for nearly two days to go to Banjul (often through a third country) for a journey which a straight-line flight would have taken only one hour.”
A taron ƙungiyar Sufurin Jirgin Sama ta ƙasa da ƙasa a watan Yuni a garin Accra, Mataimakin Shugaban ƙasar Gana, Dr, Mahamudu Bawumia, ya nuna baƙin cikin yadda "ɗan kasuwa daga garin Free Town [Saliyo] sai ya yi tafiyar kwana biyu zuwa garin Banjul (wani sa'in ma sai ya biya ta wata ƙasar) duk saboda ya isa gurin da jirgi duda ɗaya zai iya kai shi a awa guda".