Hajj 2014: Medview Air to begin airlift on Saturday

One of the designated carriers for the 2014 Hajj exercise to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Med- View Airline, yesterday took delivery of two of its aircraft, Boeing 767-300ER, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, for the commencement of this year’s operation on Saturday.

During the arrival of the aircraft at  Lagos International Airport, the Managing Director, Med-View Airline, Alhaji Muneer 

Bankole, said that the carrier would airlift 5,303, pilgrims to the holy land for the exercise.

Bankole said that the carrier would airlift pilgrims from South West, South South and South Eastern zones of the country, just as he disclosed that the exercise would commence with the airline this Saturday from the Ilorin Airport.

He added that pilgrims from the South West except Ekiti, Ondo States and the Armed Forces would be airlifted from the Lagos Airport, while the South South and South Eeast passengers would be airlifted from Port Harcourt and Enugu Airports respectively.

He said, “We are at the moment using four airports and we are picking the eastern people from Enugu, South South pilgrims from Port Harcourt, Ondo and Ekiti from Ilorin and other parts of the South West from Lagos. We are taking 5,303 passengers in all except other cities outside the West African countries, which we do support.

“We are going all flights direct to Medina, which is 100 per cent fulfillment of our commitment to our pilgrims. So, what this means is that we are taking away the stress where pilgrims would be dropped in Jeddah and would be using buses to carry them to Medina thereby exposing them to risks for about six to eight hours on the road. So, we are dropping them directly in Medina. We have fulfilled that now in the last two years and they are very happy about that.”

Bankole also dismissed the reports in some quarters that the Saudi Arabian authorities in Nigeria would not issue entry visas to intending pilgrims due to the outbreak of the infectious Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, which was recorded in the country in July, maintaining that the embassy in the country had commenced the issuance of visas to intending pilgrims since Monday

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