Ogbonaikenna: trash

giles14: Is she from Enugu?weather she is from enugu or not dos'nt define her directive,hw many northerns travel abroad apart frm dose on hajj.

Novice1: Very pedestrian thinking by the minister. I shudder to think of the calibre of policy makers we have in this country. When will they start to see themselves as leaders of a country and not a section? I bet if she has a chance she may want to have an airport in her village and force airlines to land there.

This is exactly the problem with Nigeria. and the Okoro brothers are having orgasms because she wants to force airlines to enugu.

Air traffic is always driven by demand. You can never force reputable foreign airlines to that glorified airfield that looks like a workshop.

Allow the airlines to land where they want, she should feel challenged to expand the capacities of the airports they want to land, and leave that as her legacy after she has stepped down, but banal sentiments are to deep seated to allow her make a rational decision.

O God, provide us with visionary and selfless leaders in Nigeria.

KenGali: When people want to make senseless criticisim you throw resoning to the dogs.
Airlines and shippers cannot operate just from any location they want, as they do not build the facilities they use. Govt. does. If Govt. Did not build an airport in Lagos and Abuja and ask interested Airlines to use it, there will be no demand in those places today. Enugu is simply getting the same treatment. Because Lagos and Abuja are today developed people want to claim that it is demand. The demand is due to a delibrate Govt action, so it will also apply to Enugu.

Novice1: Very pedestrian thinking by the minister. I shudder to think of the calibre of policy makers we have in this country. When will they start to see themselves as leaders of a country and not a section? I bet if she has a chance she may want to have an airport in her village and force airlines to land there.

This is exactly the problem with Nigeria. and the Okoro brothers are having orgasms because she wants to force airlines to enugu.

Air traffic is always driven by demand. You can never force reputable foreign airlines to that glorified airfield that looks like a workshop.

Allow the airlines to land where they want, she should feel challenged to expand the capacities of the airports they want to land, and leave that as her legacy after she has stepped down, but banal sentiments are to deep seated to allow her make a rational decision.

O God, provide us with visionary and selfless leaders in Nigeria.

coolestkc: I do not understand why some people don't reason before they make public comments, I read some people asking why somebody who wants to take a direct flight would be forced to come to Enugu first to catch his/her flight, but forgot that everybody from the East have been flying to Abuja or Lagos before catching their direct international flights so why the complaint if someone now has to fly from Abuja or Lagos to Enugu to catch a direct flight. That will help businesses like hotels and eateries in Enugu to flourish and thereby ensuring equitable distribution of wealth.Please people should stop being myopic in their thinking.

Novice1: Sumary of responses:

Okoros: Firmly in support
All Others: Against


This decision is dead on arrival. No profit-making foreign airline will fly to Enugu.

Stella can revive Nigeria Airways and force them to fly Dubai-Enugu.

KenGali: By the time we succeed in opening visa processing centers in Enugu for Germany, Dubai, Singapore and China you'll be eating these words

Paul John:

May be you read that post again. The companies said there are high demands of their operation in Abuja, no one is saying there is no demand at all in Enugu. But when it's higher in Abuja and people are forced to land in Enugu before heading to Abuja, people spend more than what they should, and same as these companies.
The idea of the minister is good, but I think it'll be better if the flight to Abuja is granted and all these air companies flying Abuja must as well have a particular percentage of it flight towing Enugu, to balance it. But you forced to reach Enugu first before making your way to Abuja is out of it.

Novice1:

Visa processing ko spare parts shop ni.

KenGali: You can buy the tickets of other airlines if you must go from Abuja or Lagos. Other people in Enugu and those who can afford to pay for connection to Enugu will patronise the new airlines. So nobody is at a disadvantage, if you do not give Enugu a favourable policy, then you force some people who cannot afford it to pay for connecting flight to Abuja or Lagos which is a Disadvantage. How will the airlines know the demand in Énugu if nobody is offering the flights?

Kobojunkie:

Corrections to your post

a) The East was never denied an international Airport. Long before the renovation of Enugu started back in 2009, the East had PortHarcourt and Calabar airports.

b) People who fly international SHOULD NOT BE FORCED to have to connect when all they want is a direct flight as is the case with many who fly into airports like Lagos and Abuja still. Airlines such as Delta(American), Lufthansa(FrankFurt), and Air France(Paris) have been serving some of the Eastern Airports for a while now.

c) It is silly to argue that because people, in the past, have flown into Lagos and had to connect to other parts, then it is sensible to now force the Lagos/Abuja fliers fly into Enugu and then connect back to Lagos and Abuja.

d) Enugu does not need to FORCE people from other parts to fly their way in order to boast transports from that location. The Airport can work to at least sell itself to it's own people so they patronize airlines with flights directly to Enugu.

In reaction to number 2.

If you have even been to Brussels from Nigeria with any of the following flights; Luftanza, KLM, Air France or Aberian. This is what happens, Lufthanza takes you to Frankfurt first,while KLM takes you first to Amsterdam and Air france takes you to Paris, while Alberia takes you to Milan first. Even BA does that as well. If you take Emirate, it takes you first to Dubai first as well. After which a connecting flight will fly you to Brussels. So this international carries do that. So it has not to do with Nigeria or trying to force Enugu to open. It is simply business strategy, a way to open up all other markets and reduce traffic to manageable capacity in Abuja and Lagos airport.

woodcook: In reaction to number 2.

If you have even been to Brussels from Nigeria with any of the following flights; Luftanza, KLM, Air France or Aberian. This is what happens, Lufthanza takes you to Frankfurt first,while KLM takes you first to Amsterdam and Air france takes you to Paris, while Alberia takes you to Milan first. Even BA does that as well. If you take Emirate, it takes you first to Dubai first as well. After which a connecting flight will fly you to Brussels. So this international carries do that. So it has not to do with Nigeria or trying to force Enugu to open. It is simply business strategy, a way to open up all other markets and reduce traffic to manageable capacity in Abuja and Lagos airport.

KenGali:

Not intelligible, did you lose your English words?

oyb: desperate move to drive business in a civil service town.

typical abuse of position o drive a suspiciously ethnic agenda madness.if some other minister had ordered that airlines should land in ilorin the sma ekinsmen cheering would be crying foul.

pray tell, what industries or businesses are in enugu? just a move to force people to stay in cheap unsafe hotels - and to boost the enugu lagos/abuja/ph routes

Novice1:


God bless your life oyb

We will not be forced to go to that dusty, desolate, crime-ridden place just catch a flight. I will rather cross the border into Benin or Ghana and catch my flight.

zannie: @Novice1, I want to ask you a few questions:
Have u ever been to Enugu?
Have you ever heard of business strategies? From what I gathered, the airlines are not being forced, they are asked to consider. Our airports are not private businesses, they are built with taxpayers money. If some strategies are not being set up to encourage business in this newly built airport, don't you think down the line it will be a flop, and the 'typical Nigerian' will end up blaming the government?
Sometimes its good to consider issues from every angle. Enugu is not just made up of 'civil servants' as someone put it. This airport was intended to internationally serve people in this part of the south(not just the south east). From my little knowledge of international economics, the government protects young establishments by encouraging the implementation of policies like this. People in this part of Nigeria ( Enugu, Onitsha, Awka, Owerri, Umuahia, Asaba, Warri, Sapele etc) will also benefit from spending less to get to an international airport. As someone said, the whole Nigeria does not live in Lagos and Abuja.
When we talk of one Nigeria, we should always try to see things from an unbiased angle instead of bringing up hate that will always eat us up. One Nigeria, dats what I believe in

Nightshift: In 2005 i was on board a Lufthansa Airbus 340-400 flight from Frankfurt am Main to Port-Harcourt . It was a smooth direct flight . If such flights are allowed in Enugu , millions of Umuigbo in the West and Asia would prefer Enugu than Lagos and Abuja . If not for business , personally i wouldn't like to be a guest to Lagos mosquitoes even for a night after spending some cool months in Europe . This is what Mr. Ekweremmadu and Mrs. Mmadueke should lobby Mr. President to influence European airlines to do. Lufthansa which had about 49% increase on it's Nigerian routes earning last year will love it , even if it means flying Frankfurt - Enugu-Accra. When current work at Enugu Airport finishes , those Umuigbo who call the shots in Abuja, should try make it possible . Its long overdue . How long does Nigeria want to punish Ndigbo because of a lost war?