₦airaland Forum

manny4life: It's unfortunate how we come to conclusions without asking necessary questions... Like seriously, let me ask you GAR3TH claimed that PH had 13,000 Pax annually, here are my questions to all these arm and chair critics?

A. Since we know the annual pax of PH to be 13,000, what are the economic, political and financial factors mitigating against PH airport?

B. If any, do these factors "severely" have an impact on potential airlines from flying into the airports which has a direct impact on the Pax capacity?

C. If any, what are potential solutions to put a resolve on how to improve performance of PH airports.

alj harem: Lagos Kwenu, Anambra oni baje o !!!!!

GAR3TH: Why 3? Port harcourt and Enugu international are enough to serve the 15 million or so people living in the south east. Why not just upgrade those two airports instead of building new ones just a couple of miles away. You also have Calabar, Asaba and the airport in Imo, once again you can just upgrade those airports so they can have international flights.

Second enugu international airport has a yearly passenger traffic of 270,000* [all domestic]** people and port harcourt international has a yearly traffic of 850,000* people out of which only 13,000 were international flights according to FAAN. Compare that to Lagos which has a yearly traffic of 6,300,000 people.***

You cant justify building 3 airports in an area were international flight demands are low. Why not build something that will actaully give you return on your investment such as road or a rail way. There is no reason to build 3 new airports when the current ones dont even receive that much traffic. Like someone else said all this seems to be chest beating just so you can say the south east has 3 airports. but are the airports viable? cant those billions being spent be put to good use in other sectors?

* 2009 stats, airports were closed in 2010 and following years for renovation.

** No international carrier has flights from enugu international airport [lack of demand just like port harcourt?]

***2010 stats

Mr. Globe:
Its funny how only the people who are against an international airports in the SE are only yoruba folks. Lmaoo. talk of being intimidated. International airports in SE with definitely drag down traffic at lagos airport whose passengers are MORE igbo. The yorubas that travel only travel to uk. And one bigot even brought out a statistics claming the cave he calls SW (apart from Lagos) are economically viable than SE. What an irony. Another said ondo has more billionaires than SE, sorry Anambra? What a big Fo-ol! Is there anything like innosen motor factory in SW? Why is there not an Intl airport in a state that hosts it, a refinery and great industry/commerce. I want to give you yoruba folks an agenda to focus on... Start campaigning against Soludo as governor of Anambra State in 2014 because he is bringing an Intl airport to the state..... Cowardic disciples of awo

Onlytruth: Let me just address the bolded LIE which has been repeated countlessly by enemies of Ndigbo to continue to cheat us out of our fair entitlements in Nigeria. Why not make SE smaller than the whole of Bayelsa? You idiots think that lies endure for ever.
Let me tell you, it would take about 100 Niger states to equate ONE SE state in ECONOMIC potentials. FACT.

Apart from Lagos, the whole of SW is not able to compete with Anambra alone if we get our fair share of federal government infrastructure such as airports.
Now that I have situated your warped head properly, you can now go on to keep deceiving those who are still in the dark.

SE Nigeria needs THREE international airports to liberate our economy. If you can build international airports inside deserts which only serve Islamic pilgrims, you can build for areas that can actually generate revenue for Nigeria.

You can build it for areas that can put Nigeria on the world map of manufacturing and invention.

bashr8: yes we knw its u jason/alhajiharem

Chyz*:
Hey OP, Fck off! You are a tribalist yourself,jason.

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^Cheers. The Gov'nr has tried. Maybe i'm being a bit greedy and impatient , but i want him to try even harder, and open up Enugu to Tourists and Investors within the shortest possible time.

Onlytruth: Now, my map may need a little adjustment, but I would say it is about 98% correct.

Onlytruth: ^^

I'll be back with my own map.

Onlytruth: But it is true!
Take a look at your map. If I post my own more detailed map you would see that Igbo groups in Rivers state and Abia state are CORE Niger deltans.
They cannot be uprooted to suit your twisted definition whereby peripheral tribes like yours would claim it more than we.
We would never allow you to do that.

Who and what exactly are the "Core Niger-deltans"