The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given Nigeria Air approval to lease aircraft to start operations.
Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, announced this while briefing State House reporters after the federal cabinet meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Sirika said the flight operations will first begin locally, then progress to regional and international routes going forward.
The government is mulling the takeoff, soonest, despite existing challenges in the aviation industry, especially the rising cost of aviation fuel, the Jet A1.
The Nigerian national carrier logo had been launched abroad, a few years ago, when stakeholders in the Nigerian aviation sector took to an air fair to explore options available to it for effective execution.
