Benin Airport Terminal To Accommodate 600 Passengers

The Benin Airport Manager, Mr Sunday Ayodele says the new terminal building will accommodate between 500 and 600 passengers at the end of the on-going re-modeling exercise.

He also stated that plans were under-way to build a new car park that would accommodate more vehicles at the airport.

He explained that shops and other business would be relocated after the re-modeling  exercise to meet the specification of the airport plan.

“At the end of the re-modeling, we are going to see a brand new Benin airport. The departure hall will be able to take between 500 and 600 passengers and will come with a lot of components, the cooling system, screening points and all officers will be there,” he said.

He pointed out that the size of the VIP Lounge had been extended to accommodate more guests and would be separated from the Protocol Lounge.

Ayodele said that the facilities at the airport had been obsolete because of long years of neglect and commended the Minister of Aviation for her transformation programme that had engendered a new lease of life at the airports across the country.

The Airport manager noted that the absence of perimeter fence had led to runway incursion, adding that security operatives had been patrolling the airport every six hours to ensure that unwanted objects were cleared from the runway.

Meanwhile, Argentina has ordered oil companies, YPF, Royal Dutch Shell and Esso to put a price cap on jet fuel.

The measure by Argentina’s domestic commerce secretariat is based on a report by the country anti-trust commission.

The government has put pressure on YPF, the local unit of Spain’s Repsol, as part of the drive to get companies to increase investment in energy output. YPF is the main jet fued supplier in Argentina.

The Anti-trust commission said oil firms were reaping an extraordinary gain by charging jet fuel 47 per cent higher than super gasoline, when in the United States the difference is no more than 2.1 per cent.