Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, yesterday, ordered the immediate relocation of all foreign airlines to the new but deserted Chinese terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos.
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About 15 months after its official opening, the new international terminal is still largely deserted because of constraints over aircraft parking space, provision of which was not included in the original design that dated back to 2013. For legacy carriers, the complaint has been that the design flaw had little or no consideration for aircraft parking lot and apron for manoeuvring of wide-body airplanes.
He said: “The major complaints have been with the old terminal. That place is an eyesore to Nigerians coming into the country. The lifts are not working. The passages are unwelcoming and there is no air conditioner. We have the new terminal but cannot be used. It was designed without provision for big planes!
At the official opening of the state-of-the-art terminal in March 2022, then President Muhammadu Buhari was proud of the much-awaited facility as a befitting replacement for the eyesore that the 45-year-old MMIA old terminal had become.
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