The Director-General, Nigerian Civil Authority (NCAA) Mr Usman Muktar while speaking with newsmen during an inspection of the airport’s runway stated on Monday at Ahuman that the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, runway is ready for operation and will be opened on Wednesday the 19th of April.
The Abuja airport was closed on March 8 for six weeks to enable rehabilitation of its 3.6 kilometres runway to be carried out. Flight activities were consequently diverted to Kaduna International Airport during the period.
However, the Federal Government had announced that the airport would be reopened for normal operations on April 19.
Muktar disclosed that NCAA had concluded the second phase of inspection as follow-up to the recommendations made to the contractors to correct some areas of concern earlier identified by a team of experts.
He declared,
“We have carried out the inspection and we have confirmed that the job has been done quite satisfactorily in line with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standard and recommended practices.
“So, the airport, the runway is very ready to accept flight operations safely.
“By this, we are declaring that the airport and its runway are quite operational at the time that has been determined as the official opening of this airport.”
Muktar added that notice (NOTAM) had been issued to all Airmen that the runway would be operational as scheduled.
On the calibration of the airport, he said that nothing had been tampered with as far as the instrument landing system was concerned to warrant recalibration and soon the Airport would be calibrated along with others.
“It will be normal routine calibration which will be applicable to other airports that are due for recalibration,” he said.
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