izzou:
I really feel so sad

How did we even get here?

Goahead:
Our leaders are intellectually handicapped. We have many tourist attractions, transport those planes to these places and convert them to restaurants, Internet cafe and other useful spots.

Nigeriadondie:

Guy na u try cos Okada was launched 1983. I first boarded Okada Air from Benin to Lagos in 1986 this I can recall very well

Explorers:
A Nigeria Airways Vickers VC-10, leased from BOAC, at Ikeja Airport in 1969.

A company Fokker Friendship is in the background.

iluvdonjazzy:
pls who own okada air？

Explorers:
Defunct airlines in Nigeria.




ADC Airlines

Afrijet Airlines

Air Atlantic Cargo

Air Nigeria

Albarka Air

AL-AIR Al-Dawood Air

Amako Air

Amed Air

Arax Airlines

Axiom Air

Barnax Air

Bellview Airlines

Capital Airlines

Chrome Air Service

Dasab Airlines

Earth Airlines

EAS Airlines

Easy Link Aviation

Freedom Air Services

Fresh Air

GAS Air Nigeria

Hamsal Air

Harco Air Services

Hold-Trade Air

British Aircraft Corporation

IAT Cargo Airlines

Intercontinental Airlines (Nigeria)

Mangal Airlines

Meridian Airlines

Nicon Airways

Nigeria Airways

Nigeria One

Nigerian Global Aviation

Okada Air

Overnight Cargo Nigeria

Pan African Airlines

Premium Air Shuttle

Sosoliso Airlines

Space World International Airlines

Trans Sahara Air

Triax Airlines

Virgin Nigeria

Wings Aviation.








http://allafrica.com/stories/201609190801.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Nigeriadondie:

Na Cheif Gabriel Igbinedion the father of Lucky Igbinedion former governor of Edo state.

iluvdonjazzy:
and u say it has been operating since 1983

Emerituz:

I just dey feel you man, loving your posts always. More power to your elbow bro.

ReneeNuttall:


same thing with Benin airport, u need to see the number of planes rotting away.some of them have been over taken by over grown grasses and Spirogyra. what a waste if money.

Eaa247:


wat a shame. how did Nigeria retrogressed to this point.

SalamRushdie:
Yet we elected the same man who destroyed our aviation industry back as president again in 2015 , soon as usual the carcass of Arikair and Aero will soon litre that graveyard

Chyma1:
Where did you get that from? Okada air was established in 1983 and grounded in 1997

seguno2:


Do you think that Britain was different from this some centuries ago?
How did they change?
We should continue to make our own contribution for progess.

Crownofwealth:
sometimes i wonder if we are going forward or backward as a nation.

iluvdonjazzy:
and u say it has been operating since 1983

Explorers:
A close look at some of the abandoned aircraft has revealed that many have deteriorated beyond redemption such that they can only be sold as scraps to aluminum smelters or iron and steel factories at peanuts.

Nigeriadondie:

Shey u don see wetin i dey talk now. When i dey tell u something u think say i no know wetin i dey talk?

MakeADifference:
Nigeria isn't a country!!! By geography it may be one, but by responsibility, it isnt.

(And those who call it a zoo better get lost now, they are also a big part of the troublem)

Explorers:
Nigerian airports have become an eyesore as both functional and grounded airlines have turned them into graveyards for dead aircraft o a first time visitor to Nigeria’s airports in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja or Kano, they look like graveyards for dead airplanes.




http://www.theafricanaviationtribune.com/2012/11/nigeria-pics-faan-again-gives-aircraft.html

http://planespotter.iteg.co.za/Graveyards_of_Dead_Planes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4457928227

quentin06:
its worthy to note that not all of these airlines failed as a result of poor management, some failed as a result of increased global competition and unfavorable policies from western nations, that barred planes from Nigeria from entering their countries yet they forced our govts to open our skies for their planes.

newer air crafts were just too expensive to buy in numbers for the average Nigerian entrepreneur, other things like test and service equipment could only be sourced abroad, our aeronautical engineering students cant thrive here, they go abroad and are lost forever.

doesnt it surprise you thay in yhe 90s we had kabo air, chanchangi air, okada air and othet private airlines, then in one swoop they disappeared all at once, me thinks there was a ploy to decimate these indigenous airlines.

Jakumo:


Aircraft have a limited, finite lifespan, after which they MUST be scrapped, so that they do not fall apart in the sky, due to metal fatigue cracks, among thousands of other possible mechanical failures.

Since Nigerian-owned aircraft are often bought USED, they are already well on their way to the point of no return, even before they are repainted and used for regional air travel within the country.

With this in mind, it is not a sign of "poor maintenance culture", to see aircraft rusting away in Africa, since there are substantially LARGER aircraft scrap yards in the Arizona desert.