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Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Growth, is urging airline operators to patronise native caterers, particularly for outbound flights, saying it will promote Nigeria’s cultural heritage and financial improvement.
Keyamo stated this whereas receiving the delegation of Lufthansa Group on the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja, in accordance with a press release on Tuesday.
The minister who counseled the Lufthansa Group for its companies within the aviation business over time, equally mandated all plane leaving or coming Nigeria to make sure they deal with Nigerians effectively on board of their flights.
He stated the essence for requesting patronage of native caterers throughout outbound flight is to advertise Nigeria cultural heritage, financial improvement and encourage native caterers.
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Keyamo appealed to overseas airways to make sure all plane coming to Nigeria are in fine condition, decrying a state of affairs the place some overseas airways carry Nigerian passengers with outdated plane whereas utilizing probably the most fashionable ones in different nations.
Keyamo knowledgeable the Lufthansa Group that the Nigerian authorities had upgraded the Muhammadu Buhari Airport, Maiduguri to a world airport and urged the airline to utilise the chance to harness the large market awaiting all airways when the airport commences operation in January 1, 2025.
Senior Director Gross sales, Southern and East Africa, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, Rene Koinzack, in a comment, counseled President Bola Tinubu and the aviation minister for the unusual transformation on the airports.
He stated Nigeria immigration service had been doing excellently on the airport and promised to make sure all passengers have worth for his or her cash.
Koinzack stated the essence of the assembly was to thank the minister for ease of doing enterprise in Nigeria and additional strengthen the partnership between Nigeria and Lufthansa Group.
He acknowledged that going ahead, Lufthansa would patronise native caterers on board Lufthansa, sustaining that Lufthansa Group will proceed to assist the expansion of Nigeria aviation business and its economic system on the whole.
