Ethiopian Airlines Group is building five more domestic airports with the view to expanding domestic destinations, Chief Executive Officer Mesfin Tasew said. Mesfin Tasew, indicated that the airline is working to expand domestic and international destinations, disclosing that the airline has 136 international and 22 domestic destinations. With the increasing number of its planes, the […]
While MMA2 is grossly underutilised due to government policy, other terminals lack basic infrastructure despite high passenger throughput There has been progressive increase in the number of passengers that use Nigeria’s airports both for domestic and for international flight operations. For many years, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which controls about 26 airports […]
Aviation industry stakeholders have identified multiple taxes, high operating cost and charges levelled against the airlines by aviation agencies, as the factors responsible for the hike in domestic flights. According to the stakeholders, airfares on domestic flight service have been on the increase in response to cost of operation, thus making it difficult for some […]
Most aviation experts are of the view that proliferation of airports could be good source of revenue to airport managers. However, those who criticize the building of many airports, especially by the state governments, describe them as white elephant projects and feel bitter whenever some of the airports are handed over to the Federal Airports […]
It has become the vogue for many state governments to embark on the establishment of airports. Many of the governors who go into these projects say that it is opening up their states for investment. Although it has been said at many aviation fora that building airport facilities does not promote grassroots development; rather, the […]
