Ibom Air to expand fleet

The Akwa Ibom State Government (Nigeria, owner of the airline) has acquired two new aircraft for Ibom Airlines to make a total of five aircraft owned by the state. The chairman of Ibom Air, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd), said during a press conference with newsmen in Uyo (Nigeria) that the new aircraft would reach the fleet most likely in January 2020. The fleet will be then contain five airplanes, all the same type CRJ 200, and it took only eight month to set up this fleet.

The spokesman also said, that there was a plan in place to increase the number of planes to ten by the end of 2022 "by the end of this administration".