Nigerian airports record 46% passenger decline in 2020

Airports across Nigeria saw a sharp decline of 46 percent in passenger traffic in 2020 as a result of the huge impact of COVID-19.

Following a shutdown of airports which started in March and lasted for five months, airlines were forced to park over 120 airplanes, losing an aggregated N10 billion monthly. This implies that in five months, airlines lost N50 billion because there were no passengers to fly. All airports in Nigeria were closed to domestic and international flights with the exception of emergency and essential flights.

Data exclusively provided to BusinessDay by the…