forgiveness:



You are just an illiterate who can't read simple chart.

How can Imo airport with around 260,000 passengers see more traffic than Lagos and Abuja with over 3 million passengers, and P/H with over 1 million passengers when you remove the international passengers? Bhuhahahaha!

I am not ready for stupid insults. Lagos, Abuja and PH are all international airports. Imo airport is just a domestic airport and it is the busiest in the country.

Lagos runs domestic flights but it not a domestic airport. Many people on international flight will still hop into a domestic flight to their final destination.

dplordx:


MM2 is just an hour to Abeokuta and 30 minutes to Otta. Ogun doesn't need another white elephant project. Nigeria needs rail more than airports

30 Mins? You've obviously never tried it...... The traffic on that road is terrible... Ogun needs an airport

From the distribution of airports in the country, it is clear that Edo State's airport is the least served by passengers from other states as virtually all the states it shares boundaries with have their own airports or have another airport closer to them than that in Benin yet Edo State still makes the list at 7th position. This means most of the figure recorded for Edo comes from within Edo alone unlike most other states that get a substantial part their patronage figures from neighbouring states. This puts Edo in a first position in actual sense.

ChristianNorth:

It is the middle class that drives air traffic. Ogun doesn't have one.

Have you wondered why even Delta airport has traffic than Ibadan and Akure combined? Because it serves Onitsha.

Owerri airport serves Aba and also Onitsha. It is the middle class that is driving the traffic not few rich people.

First of all, Ibadan has more middle class than Aba, Owerri, Onitsha and Asaba but Owerri and Asaba have more air traffic than Ibadan (you can see the chart below). Please, tell me another joke.

If Asaba and Owerri airport are serving Anambra state, is it not convenient to say Lagos state is also serving Ogun state? Bhuhahahaha!

Now, let me give you the reason Asaba airport has more air traffic than Ibadan despite Ibadan having more middle class than all those places. It's simply because Ibadan airport is currently not functioning due to the fact that Stella Odua abandoned it and left it to rot. It was just recently the airport is going through renovation hence it is normal for Asaba to have more air traffic than Ibadan.. How can what is not functioning work? Think

Wait for Ibadan airport to function fully this year first before you begin to compare.

The same goes to Akure airport but it has started functioning after Akeredolu renovated it. It's currently carrying 54,000 passengers per year. This is for an airport that started functioning recently.

If Akure is able to get 54,000 passengers, who are you to say there is no middle class in Ogun state? Clown.

You can read this.






Akure airport records steady passenger growth

Published

October 24, 2018
Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi

The Akure Airport Manager, Mrs Cecilia Oguama, says passengers’ traffic at the airport has been growing steadily in the past one year.

She stated that before now, the airport recorded low traffic of about 20 passengers monthly, adding that passenger traffic had grown to thousands.

“Passenger traffic has increased tremendously. There was a time we had 10 people, 20 people; but right now, we have passengers in thousands, and 4,500 people per month,” she said.


The manager attributed the growth to the commencement of flights by Air Peace following a partnership arrangement between the airline and the Ondo State Government.

She added that the new terminal building with a sitting capacity of 100, which was put into use about two months ago, also contributed to passenger growth as airports users found the terminal more comfortable.


She said interest in the transportation of perishable goods through the airport had also increased and expressed the hope that the abandoned cargo airport would be included in the 2019 budget to get the contractors back to site.

“We have suppliers coming to make enquiries about the cargo airport; this state is known for agriculture and most of their produce is taken by road. So they come to the airport for enquiries on the transportation of their goods,” Oguama said.


While commending the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria for the quick response to issues at the airport, she said grass cutting had remained the greatest challenge at the airport with a need for urgent response


https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/akure-airport-records-steady-passenger-growth/amp/

ChristianNorth:

I am not ready for stupid insults. Lagos, Abuja and PH are all international airports. Imo airport is just a domestic airport and it is the busiest in the country.

Lagos runs domestic flights but it not a domestic airport. Many people on international flight will still hop into a domestic flight to their final destination.

You are too dull. The chart below clearly differentiated between the international airport and Domestic airport for Lagos, P/H and Abuja.

As long as the Domestic airports are patronised, they are the busiest in the country. Stop polluting this space with half baked junkies.

Imo airport is not the busiest in the country. Educate yourself.

helinues:


Airport in Ogun? Abeg not now, let Dapo completes all the abandoned projects by Amosun first.

Upon all the IGR generated , nothing to show for it

Amosun rushed to build airport in Wasimi after Dapo Abiodun emerged as APC candidate because he knew the planned Cargo airport in Iperu will be built under Dapo Abiodun.

Ogun state needs airport.

FemiMaduka:
Sadly, our whole air traffic data put together can not match that of O.R. Thambo International Airport Johannesburg ALONE! Abeg, what are these simpletons fighting about?

I doubt if MMIA has the facility to take the Airbus A380 or the Antonov An 224.

We have a lot of work to do...

A 747 can't even land there and you're talking about an A380

manny4life:


A 747 can't even land there and you're talking about an A380

No bro. 747s have been landing in Nigeria for decades. Defunct Nigerian Airways even had, at least, one. I have never seen an A380 in Nigeria though.

9icest:


I am an Omo onile in Ikorodu area. Your entire fathers pay me good money for a square meter feet. The slogan no mans land is just a sad and pathetic self-denial rant. If them born your papa well, enter my family land and dey shout no mans land. We go bury all. Awon Iran oshi

na so each Nigerian citizen get their own family land for Lagos, you know get talk tribalist...

manny4life:


A 747 can't even land there and you're talking about an A380

The facilities to receive A380 will be ready this year. See the bolded.


FG Insists on Concession of Nation’s Airports

By editor - 6 months ago

By Chinedu Eze

The federal government said yesterday that it has resolved to concession nation’s airports under the management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to create opportunity for the private sector to participate in airport infrastructure development in Nigeria under the PPP arrangement.

Government said the concession process would start with the first four major airports in the country located in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt for a maximum of 30 years to ensure they are run efficiently and profitably

Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, disclosed this on Friday when he opened the Legend Lagos Airport Hotel operated by Hilton at the Quits Aviation Terminal, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

The opening of the exotic hotel, which was graced by the President of Hilton Worldwide, Christopher Nasette, the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Managing Director of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, Chairman of Oando, Mr. Wale Tinubu, among others, was described as unique.

Sirika before he cut the tape to open the hotel disclosed that the new airport terminals in Abuja and Port Harcourt built by the Chinese under the $500 million facility from China Exim Bank would be inaugurated before end of October.


The minister observed that many Nigerians have taken to the social media to celebrate the new terminal at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana, but they did not know that the country has better airport terminal facilities in Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja and Lagos, adding that the four terminals would be unveiled soon, starting with Port Harcourt and Abuja this October.

He, however, stressed that despite the building of the four facilities and additional one at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, government had realised that it cannot efficiently build and manage airport infrastructure, hence the decision to concession them.

“I will like to say that within the first quarter of next year, Airbus A380 aircraft would be landing in Nigeria. We have facilities to receive such an airplane. But this year before the end of this October, we would be opening the terminal in Port Harcourt which is ready even to the apron operations. We will also be opening the terminal in Abuja. They would be ready for operations.


“There are many other terminals we will open. I am sure my friends in the media have not forgotten that the intent and purpose of this government regarding aviation is to concession these airports. We don’t believe that government can run these facilities and run them very well. We must hand them over to the private sector,” he said.

The minister said Nigeria would soon record the highest passenger traffic in Africa as it was presently recording 16 million passengers per annum and the country strategically located to become a natural hub for West and Central Africa.

“If you talk about passenger traffic in air transportation, Ghana is just 450,000 passengers per annum last year. Here with all the dilapidated structures around the airports which we are working hard to improve very soon, Nigeria did about 16 million passengers, that’s 30 times Ghana market. We’re so lucky by our geography to be at the centre of the world. We are close to all locations in the world,” Sirika said.

Expressing appreciation for the top-notch Legend Lagos Airport Hotel, Dangote said the hotel could compete with any first class hotel in the world and urged government and FAAN management to build airport facilities that had similar quality as the hotel, expressing the hope that world’s largest passenger aircraft, A380 would soon land in Nigeria.

“It is really a great pleasure to be here today to celebrate this great hotel, which the CEO of Hilton described as the only hotel in the world which you will walk 10 steps to the aircraft. I am impressed with this kind of facility and the Minister; we rely on you so that in the next few years we will have an airport with this kind of quality. I would like to congratulate Sam Iwuajoku (CEO of Quits Aviation) and Hilton for building this kind of hotel here. We are happy to have this kind of facility in Nigeria,” Dangote said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/10/06/fg-insists-on-concession-of-nations-airports/%3famp