The airport was opened for commercial services on Dec. 7
last year.
The Anambra Commissioner for Works, Mr Marcel Ifejiofor,
made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
Sunday in Umueri, near Awka, where the airport is located.
He noted that although the flight and passenger figures
surpassed projections when compared with the airport’s contemporaries, it would
have been more, if more airlines were using the airport.
NAN reports that so far, only Air Peace and United Nigeria
Airlines are landing and taking off at the Anambra Airport.
Ifejiofor, who is also the head of the Anambra State Airport
Project Committee, said the airport contributed significantly to easing
passenger traffic during the yuletide.
He said that passengers who would have landed at Asaba and
Enugu Airports flew straight into the Anambra airport.
“Anambra Airport is a hub, there is no place you can’t go to
in Nigeria from Anambra State. We are just scratching the surface in terms of
activities that will take place here.”
Also speaking, Mr Martin Nwafor, the Managing Director of
the Anambra Airport Management Authority, said the service quality at the
airport had continued to improve.
Nwafor said that all the regulatory agencies in the aviation
sector, including the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Nigerian
Meteorological Agency, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, among others,
were now domiciled at the airport.
He said there had not been any issue since the opening of
the airport and that the airport management was prepared to handle issues as
they arose.
Nwafor said that workers deployed to the airport were
trained and that they had been given sufficient orientation on how to do their
jobs. (NAN)