Nigeria Air to begin operations with three leased airlines

The Federal Executive Council has given approval for the commencement of operations by Nigeria Air.

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika disclosed this while speaking with journalists at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting.

“We have said in our outline business case, which was earlier approved, that we are starting with three aircraft for the first instance and then we progress. We will have a mixture of Airbus and Boeing because every airline that will grow big uses the two,” he said.

Sirika said Nigeria Air will start with domestic flights before expanding to international routes.

“We will start with domestic flights and then we grow to become international and then we move to become regional and intercontinental. There are challenges currently in our aviation industry but it is a global phenomenon and it will not last forever because aviation is a very resilient sector. Certainly, we will overcome these problems,” he added.