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    NAHCO, United Airlines Seal Handling Deal

    Nigeria Aviation Handling Company, NAHCO Plc, has clinched the contract to handle United State based United Airlines for the next three years just as it signed a five-year contract with Qatar Airways in Abuja and renewed the Lagos contract for another five years.

    United Airlines, had voluntarily exited Nigeria in 2016 and is making a comeback in November, with NAHCO renowned for its track records of service excellence, as its preferred partner, providing passenger and ground handling services.

    NAHCO’s Group Executive Director, Business Development and Commercial, Prince Saheed Lasisi, who expressed excitement on the feat while making the announcement, described it as a boost for the industry, ‘’NAHCO is excited to be the chosen one, we welcome United Airlines back to our airspace, and we are ever ready to provide the airline quality handling at all times, as being currently provided to our numerous client airlines’’.

    In the same vein, the Company recently signed a five-year contract with Qatar Airways in Abuja, as well as renewed the Lagos contract for another five years. And in the word of Prince Lasisi, ‘’with the new contracts, which run for five years and coupled with the additional frequencies of Qatar flights to Nigeria and Ghana, we are glad to go even further to provide the top -notch services for which we are known and have offered the airline for the past nine years’’.

    The newly renewed contracts cover all service areas, as it will see NAHCO provide passenger, cargo, and ground handling services to Qatar Airways. It also includes the provision of crew transportation and other ancillary services to the respected airliner.

    Also, NAHCO has renewed its contracts with Egypt Air and Royal Air Maroc for another three years. The new signings and renewals signal NAHCO’s commitment to service excellence and reaffirm its leadership position in the nation’s ground handling business.

    NAHCO Plc is a Nigerian diversified enterprise with interests in aviation cargo, aircraft handling, passenger facilitation, crew transportation and aviation training.

    The company currently serves several airlines across the major functional airports within Nigeria, and handles the largest chunk of domestic, foreign and cargo airlines.

    In 2005, NAHCO was privatized and listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 2006. The Company is now owned by over 80, 000 shareholders, as well as local and institutional investors.

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