"He disclosed that data available from the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA) showed that 58,000 passengers travelled to Rome last
year; adding that Italian airline, Alitalia carried only 27,000 of these
people and the rest were carried by other foreign carriers.
“So there is a beckoning market to those destinations. ‘So we will be
flying Lagos-Rome-Paris. ‘We have got government approval to fly to
Rome, Paris, Johannesburg and Dubai. We will start flying to Dubai
before the end of this quarter”, he said."
Of particular interest however, was the ambitious goal of turning Air Nigeria into a public listed company by 2014.
"‘I want to assure you that effective two years from now; we will be
depositing Air Nigeria into your hands. What does that mean? Air
Nigeria will now have to go PLC. It will now be an airline owned by
Nigerians. I will sell my shares, and then you can buy some. Air Nigeria
will be in the market. So we will meet at Annual General Meetings, and
then we will discuss. So that is our plans. By then, Air Nigeria will be
fully Nigerian,’ Ibrahim said.
He disclosed that the Nigeria Stock Exchange had invited the company
this year to come and be listed under the special registry so that Air
Nigeria would be in the market.
‘You will be a shareholder, I will be a shareholder. It will be our airline,’ he added."
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