*Total of 95,000 Nigerian Pilgrims to be airlifted Nigeria’s major operator, Medview Airline in the early hours of Thursday airlifted 320 Lagos State pilgrims to Mecca from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos The pilgrims were taken to the Holy Land in Saudi Arabia from the Hajj/Cargo Terminal of the Lagos airport with the […]
Ahead commencement of 2018 hajj operations and recommencement of its London services, Medview airline on Thursday took delivery of its newly acquired B777-200ER to boost its fleet. Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole made this known at the hajj terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. He said the aircraft was purchased […]
Med-View Airline will on Sunday September 10 commence the airlift of pilgrims from Saudi Arabia back to Nigeria. Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole who disclosed this said that over 17,000 pilgrims would be airlifted back home, assured that the return trips would be completed in two weeks. The airline airlifted pilgrims […]
Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Muhtar Usman has explained the recent fine of N35.5m imposed on First Nation Airways, noting that the sanction was in compliance with the provision of the Civil Aviation Regulations, which is given after initial warnings. The Director General said it was not done as punitive measure […]
The Managing Director of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole has said that Nigerian airlines have the capacity to airlift over 70, 000 pilgrims for Hajj if given the opportunity because those in that service have become efficient and could deploy aircraft at short notice for the operations. Bankole made this known in an interview […]
