Yemisi Izuora
Medview Airline is to commence four flights weekly to Maiduguri Airport and further reconnect the northern region to other parts of the country beginning this Friday.
Managing Director, Alhaji Muneer Bankole while announcing this said the four flights are on Friday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, saying it will reduce the long hours of stress on the road which the people of that region go through to get in and out of Maiduguri.
Already, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) have given a nod to Medview airline to operate the Maiduguri flight which has been closed to commercial flights due to activities of insurgents.
Bankole commended Governor Shettima of Borno state for his clarion call to investors to return to the state as there was now relative peace in the region.
His words, “Our decision to commence flights to Maiduguri was informed by the need to link up the people of this region to other parts of the country.”
He further stated that the four flights from Lagos to Maiduguri will be routed via Abuja, the statement said
With Maiduguri, Kano and Kaduna on its schedule, Medview Airline now flies to eight destinations, Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Yola and Enugu on domestic routes and Accra on the regional route. Abidjan, Cote de’ Voire and Conakry, Guinea will soon join the Medview network