Chachangi Completes ‘C-Check’ On 3 Planes

The station Manager of Chachangi Airlines at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, Mr Abdallah Salihu, has said that three of the company’s airplanes are to rejoin the fleet of the airline, after undergoing mandatory maintenance checks in South Africa.

Salihu told the Aviation Correspondent in Abuja that the return of the planes would boost the operations of the airline to meet customer demands, especially during the boom season.

He said that two of the airplanes had capacities to carry 148 passengers each while the third could carry 128 passengers.

The station manager said that the airline had to ground 10 airplanes in its fleet to enable the planes to undergo repairs in South Africa.

“Our airplanes have been on C-check in the past few months and one of them will be returned to the country next week while the other two will be back before December. Presently, the company has been leasing from Jordan Aviation Company.

“Most of the aircraft have been leased from foreign companies. IRS, ARIK and others have also leased planes because we don’t have enough to operate.

“The two aircraft we are using on the Abuja to Lagos route belong to Jordan Airlines,’’ Salihu said.

He said that Chachangi would expand its route network to service Kaduna to Lagos and Abuja to Port Harcourt before the end of this