SAHCO honoured with British Airways award

Skyway Aviation Handling Company PLC (SAHCO) has been awarded the prestigious Punctuality Award by British Airways for its regularity and safety performance in the first and second quarters of 2024 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos Station.

This been a quarterly award for stations in Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions.

SAHCO has also won the British Airways’ bronze award for achieving its punctuality target of 96 percent for the second quarter of 2024 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja station.

This shows SAHCO’s consistent excellence at service delivery for winning the awards in the two stations where British Airways fly into.

British Airways (BA) is a global airline that is the United Kingdom’s flag carrier headquartered at Harmondsworth, England, UK near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport.

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BA being a renowned airline with over 100 years’ experience in the skies is wholly dedicated to ensuring punctuality, safety and security are of utmost priority and the airline is committed to excellent partnership with their clients thereby promoting an enabling environment for making SAHCO’S excellent service delivery seamless.

In a congratulatory letter addressed to Adenike Aboderin, Managing Director/CEO of SAHCO, British Airways commended the Lagos and Abuja team for their exceptional performance due to the stations’ ability to meet or exceed the Adjusted Door Closure (aDC) target of 96% each month during the quarter, with no significant safety events or repeat audit findings. This feat has been achieved for two quarters in a row for the Lagos station.

In the same letter, BA congratulated the entire SAHCO team for the remarkable performance and reiterated that the achievement reflected the team’s dedication and hard work.

Commenting on the two awards received by SAHCO’s Lagos and Abuja station, SAHCO’S MD/CEO reiterated that the award is a testament of the commitment of the SAHCO team to maintain the highest standards of punctuality and safety.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.