MAX AIR TO COMMENCE DOMESTIC FLIGHTS SOON, AIRLIFTS 500,000 WITHIN 11 YEARS

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MAX AIR TO COMMENCE DOMESTIC FLIGHTS SOON, AIRLIFTS 500,000 WITHIN 11 YEARS



MAX AIR TO COMMENCE DOMESTIC FLIGHTS SOON, AIRLIFTS 500,000 WITHIN 11 YEARS








From Kolade Adeyemi, Kano



The management of Max Air Ltd has concluded plans to commence domestic flights to all destinations in the country, in order to ease the hardship, being encountered by air travelers in the country. 

Addressing Reporters in Kano, yesterday, the Media Officer of the Airline, Alhaji Ibrahim Dahiru, said already the Company had acquired three additional aircraft, which would be used for the domestic operation nationwide. 

The newly acquired aircraft, 737-500, with the capacity of 130 seats each is to  have its operational base in  Kano. 

While disclosing that, Max Air was established in Nigeria in 2007, he said they have been operating, as an International Charter Airline, concentrating mainly on the annual Hajj and Umrah airlift, adding that since inception, it has been operating with  seven wide bodied  aircraft Boeing 747.

Similarly ,within the last 11 years of its operation in Nigeria, Max Air has airlifted over 500, 000 passengers, mainly pilgrims to Saudi Arabia and back home in addition operated a chartered  flight, like the current airlift of Nigerian refugees from Libya. 

In addition, Dahiru promised that, with the coming of Max Air into the domestic  market  in Nigeria, the Airline intends to wipe  out tears and hardship being encountered by air travellers to their various destinations in the country.


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