Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Nigerian Airport Runways

I have said it many times that none of our airports is qualified for a second runway including Lagos. Our runways are underutilised; the total air traffic landings on the 26 airports in the country is less than that of Heathrow with 2 runways or Gatwick with one runway. 

The problem of poor maintenance culture that characterised our public infrastructure is at the height of our want for reckless spending. As I talk to you, none of the airports runways has periodic maintenance programs as recommended by the documents supporting ICAO Annex 14 for aerodrome's standards and that include the Lagos airport that has just been been hurriedly given certification by the NCAA in anticipation of its concession! This for me, is a risky pathway; a new operator of the airport would need recertification for the airports to meet its own operational standard which expectedly would be different from FAAN.

Culled from whatsapp by Ike Onwubuya

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