The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has announced that Runway 18R and 36L of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, will be shut for eight weeks down for maintenance.
“My advice is that whatever they’re doing, eight weeks should be eight weeks. Foreign airlines hope that this will be a final solution and then we can have two runways running concurrently for a long time like we see in other climes which have more two runways.”
Speaking with our correspondent on this new development, an industry expert and former Director of General Aviation at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Capt. Ayodele Sasegbon, hailed the maintenance move by FAAN but noted that the agency must keep to the stipulated schedule He hopes FAAN has learnt to manage the ‘make shift’ runway better than it did last year when it shut the runway to fix airfield lighting.
Aviation expert, Capt. James Daniel, said, “If FAAN is closing down the international runway which is slightly longer, I believe the other runway is of sufficient length to accommodate bigger aircraft. I don’t see that having a major impact. Obviously, there will be delays in flights because of the extra number of aircraft flying off the other runway so it would obviously increase delays. The primary issue is the delay it will create of the traffic congestion.”All rights reserved.
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