FAAN Releases Lagos Airport’s Passengers Statistics

The Federal Airports Au
thority  of Nigeria (FAAN) has released the statistics of passengers that passed  through the domestic Terminal I of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos  between January and August  2014.
FAAN General  Manager, corporate communications, Mr. Yakubu Dati last Friday disclosed that a total of over one million passengers used the airport during the period under review.
Dati said the actual number of were 1,007,8,23 passengers, stressing that this figure is expected to rise in the last quarter of 2014, as three new domestic airlines have concluded arrangements to commence operations at the terminal from October 30,2014.
He said the two new airlines are Air Peace Airlines and Azman Airline that would soon commence scheduled commercial operations at the terminal, while  the third  Discovery Airline has already began commercial  operations  at the terminal.
He explained that the terminal has become very attractive to airlines as a result of measures  put in place by the FAAN  management  that have attracted a total  number of 12,564 aircraft movements within the said period to the terminal FAAN’S  spokes person said a breakdown of the figure show that a total number of 507,542 passengers arrived at the terminal, while 500,281 departed from the  terminal during the period under review,  stressing that a total of 6,198 aircraft arrived at the terminal while 6,366 departed from it.
Dati said the quantum of economic activities generated  at the airport has translated into creation of more jobs and wealth for Nigerians not only at the Lagos airport, but also at other  remodeled airport across  the country under the present  Federal Government Aviation Transformation programme.

Philip Okparaji