By Sade Williams
Poised to have a strong presence on the West Coast, Med-View Airline will on Friday, October 27 begin flight operation into Abidjan, Conakry and Dakar with an inaugural flight.
With the three new cities, the airline now has six destinations on the West Coast as Accra, Monrovia and Freetown are already on its network.
According to the airline, the flights to the new destinations will be three times a week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday with early departures (7.30am) from Lagos.
The airline’s new generation aircraft -B737-800 is scheduled to service the route.
Speaking on the development, Medview Chief Executive Officer, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, who successfully coordinated the 2017 Hajj in which the airline airlifted over 17,000 pilgrims said, “our expansion programme is informed by research and planning.
“In the very near future, we will be operating to Johannesburg, South Africa; Lisbon, Portugal; Libreville, Gabon and Houston in the US,’ he said.
He disclosed that the airline has already positioned for Dubai come November /December 2017.
