Asky Launches Abuja Route

Asky airline has launched its Abuja route in line with its vision to connect many countries in Africa from Lome, the capital of Togo.

The airline is already operating daily flights from its hub, in Lome to Lagos, connecting East and Central Africa.

Speaking at the airline’s inaugural flight to Abuja which coincided with its second anniversary, the company’s President, Gervais Koffi Ojondo said they would expand into other cities in Nigeria in due course.

“We want to give priority to covering West and Central Africa, give opportunities to our business men and women to move freely within these two regions for them to have possibility through our airlines to make connections to other airlines to go about their businesses.

“However, talking about Nigeria, we need approvals. Once we are given those permits, we will increase our frequencies to Nigeria. You know we have only two to Abuja. We want to increase it to seven. After that, we will expand into some other Nigerian cities to make more traffic within Nigeria.

“We will cover region by region. We intend to control a large chunk of the market; West and Central Africa. After that, we will now fly to Asia, America, Europe, and again like I said, things will come in small stride, but surely we will cover all the places including Nigeria.

He said that the airline was a private investment that was totally different from the defunct Air Afrique and others that were poorly managed, stressing that Asky had deliberately refused to have state participation in the business.

Asky now operates over 70 flights per week departing and arriving at its hub in Lome with an average load factor of 70 per cent. To date over 800,000 passengers have been air-lifted throughout the sub-region.