Air passenger traffic at Nigerian airports in the last 12 years jumped by 23 per cent, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Managing Director Saleh Dunoma has said.
According to him, it leaped from 4.4million to 12 million passengers in the review period.
The traffic grew between 2004 and 2016 because of the remodelling of terminal facilities and the growth of airlines.
He said between 2004 and 2010, the growth rate increased marginally on a yearly average of two per cent. But from 2010 to 2016,it increased at three per cent.
Dunoma said the FAAN is striving to expand airport facilities to accommodate the envisaged growth. The growth, he said, would be achieved when the proposed international airport terminals under construction in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Port Harcourt are completed.
He said the terminals on completion would increase capacity and improve passenger facilitation.
In an interview week in Lagos, Dunoma said the new facilities being constructed at the airports would attract global attention, because of Nigeria’s aviation portion.
Dunoma said the FAAN, would continue to sustain the standards achieved during the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO’s) safety and technical audit.
He said Nigeria would continue to learn from globally accepted safety and operational policies.
