Ban: Medview operates flight to London

Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Medview Airline today operated its scheduled flight to London Gatwick, few days after the carrier was reportedly restricted.

The airline said in a statement yesterday that Boeing 747 aircraft jetted out of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Ikeja with about 240 passengers  on schedule at exactly 1.30pm.

 The Airline Chief Operating Officer/ Accountable Manager, Engineer Lookman Animashaun told journalists, “you have seen for yourself that our Lagos-London operation is not in anyway been hampered”.

Animashaun said Medview Airline  has stabilised the fares on the route to the extent that other airlines that exploited Nigerians on the London route had to fall in line otherwise passengers will avoid them.

Pix from left Alhaji Bode Oyedele, Non-Executive Director, Med-View-Airline PLC; Mr Benedict Adeyinka, former Director, Airworthiness Standard, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority NCAA; Alhaji Isqil Bello, Med-View Passenger; Engineer Lookman Animashaun, Chief Operating Officer, Med-View Airline and Mr Ricardo Agbor, Popular Nollywood Actor in a Lagos – Gatwick London Med-View Boeing 747 bound Aircraft at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Sunday contrary to ban of Med-View Airline in European Airspace Photo Lamidi Bamidele

He said the wet-leased B747 aircraft with a  460  passengers capacity was introduced in December to take advantage of the heavy traffic during the peak period, saying the aircraft operated with full capacity throughout the season up to March.

In the coming months, we will introduce the wet-leased B777 aircraft  from an EU State into the route, and the B747 will be withdrawn to the Jeddah route for Hajj operations, the COO said.

Intending passengers had for the past three days besieged the airline offices nationwide to verify the authenticity of the misleading report  about EU restriction and heaved a sigh of relief when told that the London operation was not affected.

The airline had on Wednesday May, 17 2017, which was a day after the purported restriction operated its schedule flight to London, and returned on Thursday morning .

The carrier was reportedly bared last week by the European Commission for reasons that were unclear to many. airline,