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Medview Signs Aircraft Acquisition Agreement With Air Atlanta

Pix from left Eng Lookman Animashaun, Head of Engineering, Medview Airline; Alhaji Muneer Bankole, MD and Mr Magnus Asgeirsson, Director of Sales, Air Atlanta during the signing of aircraft B747 400 agreement between Medview Airline and Air Atlanta in Lagos on Monday. Photo Lamidi Bamidele
Pix from left Eng Lookman Animashaun, Head of Engineering, Medview Airline; Alhaji Muneer Bankole, MD and Mr Magnus Asgeirsson, Director of Sales, Air Atlanta during the signing of aircraft B747 400 agreement between Medview Airline and Air Atlanta in Lagos on Monday. Photo Lamidi Bamidele

Medview Airline has signed an agreement with Air Atlanta of Iceland for the acquisition of a B747-400.
Under the agreement, Air Atlanta will deliver the 463 capacity aircraft to Medview to shore up its fleet as the airline prepares to open up more international routes.
Specifically, the aircraft will be deployed for Hajj operations and also to support London and Jeddah routes.
Speaking at event, the Medview Airline Chief Executive Officer, Alhaji Bankole, stated that the agreement was a turning point in the 10 year-old partnership with Air Atlanta as both parties have kept faith with the existing relationship, and we have moved a step further.
At the signing ceremony at Medview Headquarters in Lagos were the Managing Director of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, the Head of Engineering, Lookman Animashaun and Air Atlanta Director of Sales, Magnus Asgeirsson.
Meanwhile, the airline has taken delivery of another B737-400, bringing the fleet size to six aircraft.
The aircraft will be dedicated to Lagos-Abuja-Maiduguri route.
In another development, Medview airline has joined humanitarian efforts to help Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the North East.
Beginning from January 2016, the airline delivers a trailer load of rice and noodles monthly to IDPs in Borno..
“It is part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) to assist our people who are affected by the activities of insurgents. “Bankole said

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