The Federal Government restated its commitment to stablish a new national carrier by December 2018. Hadi Sirika, The Minister of State for Aviation disclosed the information while unveiling the airline to investors at the Farnborough
International Air Show.
A way to notice how far the project had gone was the presentation of the certificate. The airline is expected to reach US$8.8 million preliminary cost and US$300 million as take-off cost.
As the project will be developed following a public-private partnership, the Nigerian government is not fully funding the airline.
The development of the project has stalled due to the FEC not having approved the full business case. It is not known why the Minister of Information and Culture has not presented the compliance certificate to the council