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AVIATION

Last Updated Tuesday June 10, 2008

777 flights recorded weekly in Nigeria

Over 777 scheduled flights are recorded weekly in 17 of the 21 airports in Nigeria. The flights either originate or terminate in the airports which include Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Benin, Ibadan, Akure, Warri, Enugu, Owerri, Calabar, Bebi, Ilorin, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Maiduguri and Yola.
The sixth edition of Business Travel Flight Information Guide said ‘111 flights are recorded on the international schedules, 78 on regional routes, and 584 on domestic routes’.
Everyday over 274 flights are landing and taking off on the domestic routes while an average of 15 flights on international routes and 12 flights on the regional routes.
However, the players in the industry have dropped to nine airlines – Aerocontractors, Arik Air, Associated, Bellview, Capital, Chanchangi, IRS, Overland and Virgin Nigeria.netting in about 120 million.
Editor-In-Chief of Business Travel, Mr. Deba Uwadiae stated that ‘’’this sixth edition of the Business Travel Flight Information Guide has noticed the rise of Arik Airlines in route development, as it operates into 12 airports with the next airline, Virgin Nigeria operating to 10 airports and Aero operating into seven airports.’’’
Incidentally, the oldest scheduled operator in the country as at today, Bellview Airlines has reduced its domestic operations to Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
Mr. Uwadiae added that ‘the Flight Information Guide will remain a one stop flight schedule where a business traveller can make the entire search together with booking and reservation, especially with the full operations of e-ticketing from May 2008.


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