To ensure the safety and comfort of users of the nation’s airports, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has procured and currently installing and resuscitating facilities at some airports across the country.
These facilities include the total rehabilitation of the baggage system at Murtala Mohammed Airport Lagos which has been procured with the installation to be concluded in few weeks.
At a zoom meeting with industry stakeholders, the Managing Director FAAN, Captain Hamish Yadudu said also nearing completion by September 2020 is the Automatic Tray Retrieval System (ATRS) for Abuja and Lagos.
Also to be resuscitated according to the MD is the MMA UPS/Inverter system almost completed.
Captain Yadudu was also happy to announce that the abandoned Airfield Lighting (AFL) project at Kano Airport was being resuscitated and almost nearing completion, while installation would start on the Lagos Domestic Runway soon.
“We await NCAA approval to enable the contractor move to site.New check-in counters with weighing scales have been imported for MMA awaiting installation, we expect it to be completed latest by mid- September, 2020Mobile Common Use Self Service (CUSS) that can be converted to Airline check-in (CUTE)counters.”
The FAAN boss noted that in the last 5 years the agency through the support of the Federal Government and other stakeholders had turned around Nigerian Airports.
He listed who had been achieved to include, Massive upgrade, rehabilitation and remodelling of existing Terminals in our 20 local Airports, Construction of series of brand-new Terminals with ultra-modern facilities, in our five International Airports of MMIA, Lagos; NAIA, Abuja; MAKIA, Kano; Port-Harcourt International Airport and AIIA, Enugu.
“Abuja and Port Harcourt have been commissioned while Kano and Lagos will be commissioned soon, the closure of infrastructural GAPs which led to the certification of MMIA Lagos and the NAIA, Abuja with Kano and Port-Harcourt and the recent achievements include, commissioning of Terminal D in Abuja for operations.”
Captain Yadudu, emphasized that these facilities have been transformed as the growth in passenger traffic and aircraft movements over time have over-stretched and aged the facilities.
“Also given that most often it takes more resources and time lags to remodel an existing structure, one has every reason to say that FAAN made and is still making steady and sustained improvements given these constrains.”
He assured to continuous work closely and collaborate with all Stakeholders to ensure that we collectively achieve the vision of making the Nigerian Aviation industry a pride in the West Africa/Central Africa Sub-Region.
