*Tells Nigerian Airways to scale up their capability
The federal authorities mentioned it has assigned air routes to many home operators the place it has a Bilateral Air Service Settlement. Whereas talking just lately in Abuja, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Growth, Festus Keyamo, disclosed that the federal government has reactivated direct flights to Milan, Italy, and developed routes to Brazil and Canada.
He mentioned that some Nigerian airways have been designated to fly the routes, saying that they should improve their capability to take full benefit of the routes.
He mentioned: “Now we have designated United Nigeria Airways to fly the Dubai, the USA of America, and the UK routes and granted Calverton Air, Air Peace the Brazil route. What’s left is ramping up their capability to fulfil the routes given to them.”
Keyamo mentioned that the President had explicitly directed him to develop the Brazil route, on condition that journey that ought to ordinarily take seven hours can take 4 days.
“We wish to begin Canada flights. Now we have revived the Milan route that died way back with Air Italia. We now have direct flights to Milan. We’re in talks with the Italian authorities, however we wish a Nigeria Airline to make the most of this, though a overseas airline is already flying the route,” he acknowledged.
Whereas talking on the assembly, the Air Peace Chairman, Allen Onyema, mentioned it’s not simple to develop a brand new route. He disclosed that once they began flying to Niger Republic, they had been carrying two passengers.
“My daughter needed to query me sooner or later and requested who authorized Niger? What feasibility research had been carried out? We had been doing Abuja-Kano-Niger. At occasions, we are going to come again with out passengers. Individuals would fairly do roads. We did it for about six to seven months; we needed to name it off as a result of the one method it could work is that if we flew from Douala to Nigeria after which to Niger.”
