Eighteen Harcourt of the 21 airports under the management of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), record about 1,000 scheduled flights weekly.
According to the latest edition of Business Travel Information Guilde, the scheduled flights include landing and take-offs.
The airports, which on a weekly basis operate 140 international flights, 65 regional flights, and 630 domestic flights include, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Kano, Benin, Ibadan, Akure, Ilorin, Warri, Port Harcourt Air Force Base, Calabar, Enugu, Owerri, Kaduna, Maiduguoi, Jos, Yala, and Sokoto.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos, leads the pack with about 388 flights daily as Jos airport handles the lowest number with two flights.
Other airports are Abuja 147; Port Harcourt International Airport 35, Benin 32, Port Harcourt Air Force Base, 19, Calabar 17, Enugu and Warri 14 each; Ilorin and Owerri 10 each; Kano 9, Ibadan 8, Yola 7, Sokoto and Kaduna 6 each.
Lagos Airport has flights to 17 airports, Abuja has flights to 15 airports; Benin has flights to three airports including Calabar, Lagos and Abuja, and Port Harcourt has flights to Lagos, Abuja and Warri.
Two new airlines, Afrijet and Dana, have joined the nine domestic schedule operators since the publication of the last Flight Information Guide bringing the number of operators to 11 as at today.
