Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Monday, the Managing Director/CEO of Med-View Airline, Alhaji Muneer Alade Bankole, said that the airline has provided three categories of aircraft for the operations.
He said the aircraft includes 747, with a capacity of 460 passengers, 777 with a capacity of 300 passengers and 767 with a capacity of 200 passengers.
Alhaji Bankole, who said that the airlines were ready for the 2017 Hajj operations, commended the government and people of Kwara State for according MED-View Airline another opportunity for airlifting pilgrims to the Holy Land.
According to him, some of the packages put in place for this year’s pilgrims is a direct flight from the Ilorin International Airport to Prince Muhammed bin AbdulAziz International Airport, Medina for stress free pilgrimage with luggages delivered at hotels.
Alhaji Bankole said the arrangements would reduce the stress pilgrims go through after arrival at the airport and later go back for their luggages.
He urged pilgrims to see their visit to the Holy land as purely spiritual and should therefore offer prayers for the leaders, the government, themselves and their families.
Speaking on the condition of the Ilorin International Airport for the operations, Alhaji Bankole said everything was being done by the airport authorities and security operatives to guide against hitches as all hands are on deck.
Alhaji Bankole appealed to authorities concerned to open the cargo terminal at the Ilorin International airport to serve as a window for all the pilgrims that will be airlifted from Kwara, Osun, Ekit aind Kogi states while the cargo if functioning, would also improve the economy and trade of the state.
He added that what is paramount to Med-View Airline which operates into seventeen destinations across the world is delivery of quality services and ensuring that passengers have a clean, safe, secured security environment and an aircraft that is air worthy.
The aviation expert described the Nigeria airspace as safe as lots of improvements have been done from the aviation regulators but said there is still the need to do more to meet international standards.
Alhaji Bankole warned pilgrims against carrying any contraband into the aircraft as measures have been put in place to detect such unlawful products and advised the pilgrims to be good ambassadors of their family and the entire country.
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