FAAN collapses make shift tents at P/H airport

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Following the recent commissioning and movement of international operations to the new international terminal at the Port Harcourt International Airport, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has collapsed the make shift tent at the airport.

 With this development, all domestic arrivals have now been moved to the old international terminal.

 Also, the former local departure lounge will henceforth serve as local arrival hall, while the erstwhile international departure lounge has now been converted to local departure lounge.

 
The state-of-the-art Port-Harcourt airport terminal has banished the ghost of the the messy state of airport which brought embarrassment to the country as a whole. The airport was once described as a shameful portrait of Nigerian aviation sector.

That situation lingered for many years until the Federal Government came to the rescue to change all the narratives and helped to show that with determination, nothing is impossible.

Port-Harcourt airport was travellers’ nightmare. It ranked amongst the worst in the world and was a bad advertisement for the country.

Successive governments paid lip service to developing aviation infrastructure in the country despite the acclaimed huge amount of money reportedly wasted on airports remodelling.

The sorry state of these facilities, including that of Port-Harcourt, caused a survey by SleepingInAirports, an internationally-respected travel website, in conjunction with Cable News Network (CNN), to rate the Port-Harcourt airport as the worst in the world in 2015

Wole Shadare