DOMESTIC SKIES: 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.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN NIGERIA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

39,195

7.5 %

4,491,212

16.0 %

1983

43,042

9.8 %

5,163,898

15.0 %

1984

36,453

(-15.3) %

4,659,574

(-9.8) %

1985

27,433

(-24.7) %

3,595,142

(-22.8) %

1986

26,316

(-4.1) %

3,842,044

6.9 %

1987

25,998

(-1.2) %

3,827,065

(-0.4) %

1988

21,352

(-17.9) %

3,087,985

(-19.3) %

1989

13,533

(-36.6) %

1,849,153

(-40.1) %

1990

12,996

(-4.0) %

1,916,764

3.7 %

1991

12,358

(-4.9) %

1,916,282

0.0 %

1992

13,627

10.3 %

2,051,217

7.0 %

1993

11,039

(-19.0) %

1,670,949

(-18.5) %

1994

8,277

(-25.0) %

1,182,535

(-29.2) %

1995

6,818

(-17.6) %

922,118

(-22.0) %

1996

6,536

(-4.1) %

861,492

(-6.6) %

1997

9,131

39.7 %

1,110,880

28.9 %

1998

9,060

(-0.8) %

1,090,585

(-1.8) %

1999

9,293

2.6 %

1,125,344

3.2 %

2000

6,397

(-31.2) %

787,498

(-30.0) %

2001

6,809

6.4 %

808,452

2.7 %

2002

18,047

165.0 %

1,909,311

136.2 %

2003

23,273

29.0 %

2,225,075

16.5 %

2004

26,842

15.3 %

2,861,986

28.6 %

2005

32,064

19.5 %

3,847,475

34.4 %

2006

44,403

38.5 %

5,480,962

42.5 %

2007

41,948

(-5.5) %

5,020,412

(-8.4) %

2008

38,811

(-7.5) %

4,632,477

(-7.7) %

2009

58,870

51.7 %

7,078,177

52.8 %

2010

62,358

5.9 %

7,053,925

(-0.3) %

2011

65,705

5.4 %

7,561,970

7.2 %

2012

70,513

7.3 %

8,382,084

10.8 %

Richard Maslen

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