…Runway 95 percent completed says minister
Foreign and local airlines have resumed ticket sales for destination Abuja,where the airport has been closed for weeks for repairs to the runway but is set to re-open onWednesday April 19.
Hadi Sirika, minister of State for Aviation said about 95 percent of the work had been completed.
Sirika regretted that progress on the on-going project dragged temporarily as a result of the three-day rain, but expressed optimism that the airport’s runway would be completed on schedule.
The Abuja Airport is Nigeria’s second busiest airport after Lagos. According to data from the National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA), all the seven domestic airlines operate 30 daily return flights into Abuja.
Each aircraft having an average of 120 seats, depending on its configuration, bringing the total number of passengers to 3,600 passengers daily.
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