Fast rising Nigerian carrier, Medview Airline has assured travel agents and other partners that it would do everything possible to meet their needs to ensure fruitful relationship, as it moves to consolidate its operations.
The airline made this known at the weekend when it met with travel agents in Abuja and explained to them its plans to expand its routes, acquire more aircraft and adopt the best IT to ease ticketing and financial transactions.
This was disclosed by the airline’s Executive Director, Business Development, Alhaji Ishaq Na’Allah who told the travel agents of the plan of Medview to expand operations to Kano, Dubai and subsequently extend its West Coast service from Ghana to Dakar, Abidjan, Bamako and Freetown.
The airline, which has approval from the federal government to service 17 destinations also operates to London, Jeddah and has successfully been airlifting pilgrims to the Holy Land for many years.
To connect its growing customers to destinations it does not fly directly to, the airline has concluded plans to interline with foreign carriers, just as it hopes to obtain its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) in March this year, being one of the 10 airlines shortlisted in Africa to be supported by the international body to go through the safety audit.
“We are already working on interline with other carriers. You know that we have been working on IOSA and when we get it, we will interline. We have been looking at this occasion to meet with you, our travel agents, our partners here in Abuja. We are aware that in this business, we cannot do it alone. For a long time, you have been partnering with us and we want you to take this partnership to a higher level,” Na’Allah said.
Already Medview has in its fleet four Boeing B737-400, one Boeing B747, one Boeing B737-800 and Boeing B767-300 ER.
It also hopes to acquire from this year B767, B737-800, B747 to boost its fleet as it continues to record more customers in its domestic and international operations.
“We have been expanding and consolidating our operations. We have been into freight and cargo services, we are known for on-time departure, which we have striven to maintain both in our domestic and international services and we have good customer relations; that is why our customers keep on coming back. To make booking easier and to accommodate more of the travel agents into our system, we are migrating to Amadeus system this year,” the Executive Director, Business Development told the travel agents.
