Abuja Airport Closure: Medview Airline To Operate 5 Daily Flights To Kaduna Airport

Ahead of the closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on March 7 – April 18, 2017 for rehabilitation, Medview Airline has rolled out a special schedule with five daily flights from Lagos to Kaduna International Airport.

The flight schedule will be operational on March 8, 2017, a day after the Abuja Airport has been closed. With the schedule, all Medview Airline flights to Maiduguri and Yola will be routed through Kaduna airport, but their departure and arrival time remain unchanged as well as flights originating from Lagos.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole said the schedule was a proactive measure taken to ensure that all its numerous passengers going to Maiduguri and Yola have a seamless transition to their various destinations, while flying Abuja-bound passengers to Kaduna.

He said the airline has put in place all the necessary logistics to cope with the traffic expected in Kaduna International Airport. “This is a call to duty, and we are equally duty bound to render uninterrupted services to air travellers on all our routes”, Alhaji Bankole said.

The Federal Government amongst three airports close to NAIA, Abuja, recently chose Kaduna Airport as best alternative airports to Abuja. Kaduna Airport is therefore, tipped to serve as Abuja alternative during the total closure of the Abuja Airport from March 7 to April 19, 2017.

Abuja Airport runway was constructed in 1982  but had overshot its design lifespan by 14 years, resulting in a number of distressed and failed portions of the runaway. This necessitated the need for the authorities to repair the runway during a six-week period