Med-View inaugurates flights to Abidjan, Conakry, Dakar
Med-View Airline PLC at the weekend commenced flight operations to three French speaking countries of West African including Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Conakry, Guinea Bissau and Dakar, Senegal.
The new flight services add to six the countries in the West Coast which the airline flies to including Accra, Ghana; Monrovia, Liberia and Freetown, Sierra Leone flagged off last year.
Amidst the wide gaps in trade relations among ECOWAS countries owing largely to poor connectivity, Med-View Airline assures its inroad into more west coast countries would close the gaps and boost trade among West African neighbours.
Managing Director of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole said the dream of the founding fathers of ECOWAS to integrate memberstates and engender economic prosperities in the sub-region may continue to be a mirage without fast and efficient transport system.
Senegalese Ambassador to Dakar, Ambassador Abubakar Samba said trade relations between Nigeria and Senegal is very poor largely because of poor connectivity, assuring that the new service would boost interstate relations between the two countries.
Representatives of other Ivory Coast and Guinea Bissau also lauded the airline for working towards actualizing the Yammassoukro Declaration (YD) of 1987 to bridge connectivity gap in the region.
President Allan Quattara of Côte d voire, who was represented by General Manager of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, Mr. Sinaly Silue, noted that the services would reduce the difficulty citizens of the country face in flight connectivity.