Aero Contractors airline at the weekend announced that it is pulling out some of its operations from the Murtala Muhammed Airport Two, MMA2, in Lagos, South West Nigeria. MMA2 is operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation services Limited.
The move followed months of inconclusive negotiations over rent and passenger service charges.
Aero Contractors is Nigeria’s second biggest airline with over 50 daily flights to more than 10 destinations.
The airline said that it will now operate Lagos to Warri and Lagos to Port Harcourt flights from a private terminal in Lagos. The two routes are the most lucrative after Lagos-Abuja route.
The pull out takes effect from Sunday 17 October 2010 and will not affect other routes for now, the airline said in a statement signed by Mr. Robert Prophet, Aero Head of Commercial.
Prophet described the charges at MMA2 as astronomical, saying that the move to pull out is necessary.
He said: “This move has become necessary as the cost of MMA2 operations is astronomical. We have continually tried to reach an amicable cost structure with Bi-Courtney Aviation Services to no avail.”
Read more: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/11/aero-pulls-out-of-mma2/
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