• Home
  • Privacy
  • Disclaimer
  • Advertisement
  • Login
Upgrade
Reporters At Large
Advertisement
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tourism
  • Health
  • Sports
  • World
  • Entertainment
  • RAL TV
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tourism
  • Health
  • Sports
  • World
  • Entertainment
  • RAL TV
No Result
View All Result
Reporters At Large
No Result
View All Result
Home Featured

Nigeria: 15 New Airlines Seek Operating Permits

ReportersAtLarge by ReportersAtLarge
March 4, 2018
in Featured, Tourism & Culture
Reading Time: 4min read
1.7k 111
0
abuja airport
774
SHARES
9.7k
VIEWS
Share on WhatsappShare on FacebookShare on Twitter

NOT fewer than 15 new private and commercial airlines have applied for operating permits as the demand for air travel steadily rises in the country.

The spokesman of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Sam Adurogboye, said the applications were being considered and as many airlines that met the laid down conditions would be granted permits to operate in Nigeria.

According to Adurogboye, the development is an indication of growth and progress in the sector.The Guardian’s investigation revealed increase in demand for air travel as airlines are either increasing frequencies or deploying bigger aircraft on routes they had considered closing months back.

You might also like

EFCC-operatives

EFCC Arraigns Varsity Student For $11,522 Fraud

January 14, 2021
3.5k
Oyo State Amotekun

Oyo Amotekun Dismisses Officer For Killing 23-Year-Old Man In Ibadan

January 14, 2021
2.4k

#EndSARS: Court Stops Case Against Davido, Burna Boy, Falz, Others

January 14, 2021
1.2k

Amotekun Commandant Vows To Expose Those Supporting Herdsmen To Unlease Terror On Oyo

January 14, 2021
1.5k

I Have No Rift With Governor Makinde, Says His Deputy

January 14, 2021
3.3k

The Untold Story Of How Amotekun Officer Shot Man Dead In Ibadan

January 14, 2021
3.4k
Load More

While frequent fliers are enjoying the comfort of state-of-the-art airplanes, new destinations are also opening on both local and international routes nationwide. These indicators apparently align with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)’s year-on-year growth projection for air travel sector, recently put at 12.08 per cent.

ALSO READ: Akinboboye Introduces Sea Bikes To La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort

The Guardian had lately observed a chain of positive activities in air travel, suggesting improved fortune for operating airlines and the sector at large. For instance, Emirates airlines that scaled down its operations to 25 per cent during the recession has just doubled its daily flights from Lagos and restored a flight daily from Abuja.

blank blank blank

To cope with the boom, AirFrance is raising capacity on the Nigerian routes with Boeing 777 and Airbus 340 aircraft types. The wide-body state-of-the-art airplanes, besides the comfort, comes with a 10 per cent additional seat capacity en route Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt to Paris, France and Amsterdam in Holland, where the airline and its partner, KLM, operate.

ALSO READ:  South African Tourism Signs MoU Agreement With NATOP

The General Manager of Airfrance/KLM operations in Nigeria and Ghana, Michel Colleau, said the decision was business-driven as it would accommodate increase in passenger traffic on the Nigerian routes.Similarly, the Rwandan national carrier, RwandAir, is set to open Abuja operations, to add to its Lagos services. The new route is part of its strategic network plan to connect its hub in Kigali to Abuja, Bamako in Mali, Conakry in Guinea and Cape Town in South Africa.

ALSO READ: Aare Gani Adams Takes Promotion Of Yoruba Culture To Germany

On local front, Air Peace is blazing the trail in an unusual manner. Besides increasing its fleet from nine to 24 within 12 months, it has just taken the delivery of the first of three Boeing 777 aircraft for international operations. And to consolidate its local market, the airline has just opened the Kano, Yola routes that were formerly described as “unviable routes”, followed by Freetown, Banjul and Dakar services from Lagos.

Max Air, previously known for non-scheduled operations, will in the next few days commence passengers’ scheduled services. The travel agencies, who are in the downstream sector of the industry and the middle men between airlines and passengers, have also confirmed a steady improvement in passenger demand, especially on the foreign travels.

The agents and their agencies last year amassed not less than N503.3 billion ($1.4 billion) in travel ticket sales alone, a significant increase from 2016 figures.The agencies attributed the turnover to improved capacity of some airlines and upward review of official exchange rate for aviation from N306 to N359.5 per dollar.

ALSO READ:  Now Is Time To Diversify Into Tourism-Based Economy —Sally Mbanefo

ALSO READ: Nigeria Signs Agreement With UNWTO To Host African Tourism Ministers’ Meeting

The President of the National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA), Bernard Bankole, said notwithstanding the challenges with foreign exchange, stuck funds and six-week closure of the Abuja airport in 2017, operations of the airlines relatively picked, with the firms either restoring suspended operations or increasing capacity on established routes.

Bankole noted that there is a lot of money around the air travel business because of the “entrenched travel culture” among Nigerians. “We have so developed the travelling culture that Nigerians cannot just afford not to travel, move around and see new places. It is a global trend and Nigeria is not known to reject the norm. That is why travel has become our culture.

“I know quite a lot of families, rich or poor, that are already used to travelling during summer. It is a thing of pride for the spouse and children. So, that alone is a ready-made market and can cause the increase that we have been seeing,” he said.An expert in the sector, Group Capt. John Ojikutu (rtd), however, disagreed with the growth claims, even as he faulted the NBS’s 12.08 per cent growth in the air travel sector.

ALSO READ: NASS Commends Folorusho Coker’s Domestic Tourism Promotion Drives

NBS report on Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product in fourth quarter of 2017 shows that the fastest growing activities in the quarter were road transport at a rate of 27.23 per cent and air transport at a rate of 12.08 per cent year-on-year.

ALSO READ:  Everton Signs Barca Midfielder Gomes

Ojikutu yesterday told The Guardian that the projection and the said growth did not reflect the realities of travel demands in the sector, year-on-year.For instance, statistics released by regulatory agencies for 2016 shows a drop of about one million compared to people that travelled in 2015. Traffic of 2017 further dropped by about four million compared to the previous year.

ALSO READ: UNWTO Deepens Tourism Cooperation With European Union

“The same goes for ticket sales of N330 billion declared in 2017 compared to 2016’s N385 billion. I have already questioned the figures even because they show 50 per cent difference from figures of NANTA and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). So, if the passenger traffic is dropping, where is the growth coming from? Growth must come from earnings of airlines and earning from passengers,” he said.

Tags: AviationIATANANTANCAA
SendShare311Tweet193

Get real time update about this post categories directly on your device, subscribe now.

Unsubscribe
Previous Post

NNPC Spends N774m Daily On Subsidy — Baru

Next Post

Italians Vote In Tight General Election

ReportersAtLarge

ReportersAtLarge

Related Posts

EFCC-operatives
Featured

EFCC Arraigns Varsity Student For $11,522 Fraud

January 14, 2021

The Port Harcourt zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, January 13,  2021 arraigned Michael...

Oyo State Amotekun
Featured

Oyo Amotekun Dismisses Officer For Killing 23-Year-Old Man In Ibadan

January 14, 2021

The Commandant of the Oyo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, Colonel Olayanju Olayinka (rtd.) said the Corps...

court-proceeding on Sam Adeyemi, Davido, Burna Boy, Falz
Featured

#EndSARS: Court Stops Case Against Davido, Burna Boy, Falz, Others

January 14, 2021

A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered a halt in proceedings and stay action in a criminal...

Oyo State Amotekun
Featured

Amotekun Commandant Vows To Expose Those Supporting Herdsmen To Unlease Terror On Oyo

January 14, 2021

THE Chairman, Oyo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, Gen. Kunle Togun (retd) has said the security outfit...

Load More
Next Post
Italy general election

Italians Vote In Tight General Election

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

blank blank blank
Featured

EFCC Arraigns Varsity Student For $11,522 Fraud

January 14, 2021
3.5k
Featured

Oyo Amotekun Dismisses Officer For Killing 23-Year-Old Man In Ibadan

January 14, 2021
2.4k
Featured

#EndSARS: Court Stops Case Against Davido, Burna Boy, Falz, Others

January 14, 2021
1.2k
Featured

Amotekun Commandant Vows To Expose Those Supporting Herdsmen To Unlease Terror On Oyo

January 14, 2021
1.3k
Featured

I Have No Rift With Governor Makinde, Says His Deputy

January 14, 2021
3.3k
Featured

The Untold Story Of How Amotekun Officer Shot Man Dead In Ibadan

January 14, 2021
3.4k
Featured

Trump Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Biden’s Inauguration

January 13, 2021
1.5k
Entertainment

Toye Ajagun Hits Hard At K1, Others, Says They’ve Deviated From Fuji Music’s Standards

January 13, 2021
1.4k
Featured

Group Raises Concern Over Conflict In Pipeline Security Surveillance In N/Delta

January 12, 2021
1.2k
Featured

Tragedy As 18-Year-Old Girl Sets Lover Ablaze After Quarrel In Benue

January 11, 2021
2.4k

Tags

2019 Elections Abuja apc Boko Haram BREAKING BREAKING NEWS Buhari CBN Coronavirus Coronavirus in Nigeria Corruption COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic Crime CRISIS Democracy donald Trump EFCC ekiti state End SARS INEC Kayode Fayemi lagos Latest Nigeria News Latest Oyo State News Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari News NASS Nigeria Nigerian news Oyo Oyo State PDP Police POLITICS President Buhari SARS Senate Seyi Makinde terrorism tourism United States US USA Wale Ojo-Lanre
blank blank blank

POPULAR POSTS

  • Jealous wife kills stepson

    Why I Killed My Stepson With Pesticide, Jealous Wife Confesses In Osun

    163 shares
    Share 65 Tweet 41
  • ‘It’s A Lie, Orisabunmi, Siblings Didn’t Die of COVID-19’, Family Laments

    142 shares
    Share 57 Tweet 36
  • Toye Ajagun Hits Hard At K1, Others, Says They’ve Deviated From Fuji Music’s Standards

    108 shares
    Share 43 Tweet 27
  • BREAKING: Panic As Fire Outbreak Rocks Immigration Headquarters, Affects Accounts, Human Resources, Records, Other Vital Departments

    106 shares
    Share 42 Tweet 27
  • You Will Go To Jail If You Do This, EFCC Issues Warning Over NIN Registration

    261 shares
    Share 104 Tweet 65

CATEGORIES

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Featured
  • For The Record
  • Health
  • Innovation
  • Metro
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Press Releases
  • Science
  • Science & Technology
  • Sports
  • Tourism & Culture
  • Video
  • Video News
  • World
Reporters At Large

CATEGORIES

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Featured
  • For The Record
  • Health
  • Innovation
  • Metro
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Press Releases
  • Science
  • Science & Technology
  • Sports
  • Tourism & Culture
  • Video
  • Video News
  • World

TAGS

2019 Elections Abuja apc Boko Haram BREAKING BREAKING NEWS Buhari CBN Coronavirus Coronavirus in Nigeria Corruption COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic Crime CRISIS Democracy donald Trump EFCC ekiti state End SARS INEC Kayode Fayemi lagos Latest Nigeria News Latest Oyo State News Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari News NASS Nigeria Nigerian news Oyo Oyo State PDP Police POLITICS President Buhari SARS Senate Seyi Makinde terrorism tourism United States US USA Wale Ojo-Lanre

RECENT POSTS

  • EFCC Arraigns Varsity Student For $11,522 Fraud
  • Oyo Amotekun Dismisses Officer For Killing 23-Year-Old Man In Ibadan
  • #EndSARS: Court Stops Case Against Davido, Burna Boy, Falz, Others
  • Amotekun Commandant Vows To Expose Those Supporting Herdsmen To Unlease Terror On Oyo
  • I Have No Rift With Governor Makinde, Says His Deputy

Copyright © 2020 Reporters At Large

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tourism
  • Health
  • Sports
  • World
  • Entertainment
  • RAL TV
  • Login

Copyright © 2020 Reporters At Large

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

*By registering into our website, you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.