THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: Nigeria

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

NIGERIA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

ArikAir (W3)

555

63,406

40.7 %

(-7.2) %

2

Aerocontractors (NIG)

417

47,507

30.5 %

4.8 %

3

Air Nigeria (VK)

164

19,684

12.6 %

(-30.3) %

4

Dana Airlines (9J)

131

18,340

11.8 %

48.9 %

5

First Nation Airways (FRN)

40

6,440

4.1 %

New Entrant

6

Kabo Air (N9)

2

420

0.3 %

0.0 %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

1,309

155,797

-

0.8 %

NIGERIA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

ArikAir (W3)

40

5,375

9.7 %

(-12.8) %

2

Emirates Airline (EK)

14

4,284

7.7 %

(-1.4) %

3

British Airways (BA)

14

3,941

7.1 %

0.0 %

4

Ethiopian Airlines (ET)

12

3,852

6.9 %

18.4 %

5

EgyptAir (MS)

20

3,461

6.2 %

57.0 %

6

Air Nigeria (VK)

25

3,378

6.1 %

2.2 %

7

Lufthansa (LH)

14

3,374

6.1 %

0.0 %

8

Air France (AF)

14

3,066

5.5 %

42.7 %

9

Virgin Atlantic Airways (VS)

7

2,156

3.9 %

0.0 %

10

South African Airways (SA)

7

2,091

3.8 %

14.4 %

(Others)

100

20,533

37.0 %

11.8 %

TOTAL

267

55,511

-

8.6 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…