International Air Transport Association, IATA, has disclosed that Nigeria’s international air connectivity index has fallen by 1.5 per cent within Africa and by 21 per cent with other regions since 2014.
IATA, however, said Europe was the largest international market for passenger volume from Nigeria, ahead of Africa and North-America.
According to IATA, which said international air traffic accounted for 23 per cent of total origin-destination departures for Nigeria in 2023, top 10 most popular city destinations from Nigeria were London (421,300 passengers), Accra (122,300), Jeddah (92,100), Toronto (60,300), Manchester (59,800), New York (47,200), Madinah (45,500), Johannesburg (45,200), Washington (43,000), Cairo (37,400).
In the report titled: ‘The Value of Air Transport to Nigeria,’ IATA stated: “International air traffic accounted for 23 per cent of total origin-destination departures for Nigeria in 2023, equal to 2.1 million passenger departures. Europe is the largest international market for passenger flows from Nigeria, followed by Africa and North America. Almost 780,700 passengers departed from Nigeria to a country in Europe (38 per cent of the total), 485,400 to another country in Africa (23 per cent of the total), and 373,000 to North America (18 per cent of the total).
“Since 2014, Nigeria’s international air connectivity index has decreased by 1.5 per cent within the Africa region and by 21 per cent with all other regions. Understanding the nature of that connectivity is also important. For Nigeria, one per cent of all passengers arriving internationally continued their journey on a domestic connection.
“98 per cent of passengers either finished their journey at the point of entry to the country or continued traveling using a different mode of transport. One per cent of all passengers arriving in Nigeria from abroad continued their journey to a destination in another country.”
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