In a bid to have strong presence on the West Coast, Med-View Airline will on Monday, October 27 spread its wings to Abidjan, Conakry and Dakar with an inaugural flight With the three new cities, the airline now has six destinations on the West Coast as Accra, Monrovia and Freetown are already on its network.

The flights to the new destinations will be three times a week - Monday, Wednesday and Friday with early departures (7.30am) from Lagos. The airline's new generation aircraft -B737-800 is scheduled to service the route. Managing Director and CEO of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole who successfully coordinated the 2017 Hajj in which the airline airlifted over 17,000 pilgrims declared, "our expansion programme is informed by research and planning.

"In the very near future, we will be operating to Johannesburg, South Africa; Lisbon, Portugal; Libreville, Gabon and Houston in the US,' the CEO said.

He disclosed that the airline has already positioned for Dubai come November /December. Meanwhile, the fast growing airline penultimate week completed the return airlift of pilgrims who performed this year’s Hajj exercise with the last flight of pilgrims from the Eastern zone comprising Enugu, Port Harcourt, among others departing King Abdul-Azeez International Airport. According to the airline, about 15, 000 have been returned home from Nigeria.

It would be recalled that the airline commenced return journeys on Sunday September 10 with a promise to compete the airlift in two weeks. The figure comprises pilgrims from Kaduna (about 5000), Lagos, Kwara as well as international pilgrims who came through the tour operators. The last batch of Kaduna pilgrims departs on Wednesday night while the airlift of Lagos zone consisting of Lagos, Oyo and Osun and Edo pilgrims has been concluded.

Outside the shores of Nigeria, the airline also airlifted 1, 400 pilgrims from Djibouti, 500 from Guinea-Bissau and another 600 Sudanese pilgrims from Khartoum, the Sudan capital. The airline which deployed three aircraft for this year’s exercise including B747-400, B777-200 and B767-300 has in the last 11 years of its foray into Hajj operations airlifted over 350,000 pilgrims who performed the annual Hajj exercise.


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Cc Lalasticlala

Thats good ..The fares are gonna be so low at the moment

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