Warri Airport

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Coordinates: 05°35′50″N 005°49′10″E / 5.59722, 5.81944

Warri Airport / Osubi Airstrip
IATA: QRW – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner/Operator Shell
Serves Warri, Nigeria
Location Osubi
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 1,800 5,906 Paved
Sources: FAAN [1]

Warri Airport (IATA: QRW), also known as Osubi Airstrip, is located in Osubi, a town in the Delta State of Nigeria. It has a runway of about 1.8 kilometres (1.1 miles) and is about 5 minutes drive by car from the city of Warri.

The federal government first drew up plans to build an airport here in the late 1970s to easy transport into Warri city by air because of its status as an oil city but languished the Plan for over two decades in a mixture of neglect and corruption. Meanwhile, people coming in and out of Warri continued to use an old airstrip, in a congested part of the city. The airstrip could only accommodate small air crafts .Its runway was so short that whenever a plane took off or landed,[2] the authorities had to close off an adjacent road to traffic so that a passing car would not be clipped.

Finding it harder and harder to conduct business with the old airstrip, Shell finally decided to build one on its own. And so Osubi Airstrip was built and opened to all flights in the year 1999. Since the airstrip opened for Public use; it is reckoned to be one of the busiest aviation facilities in Nigeria[3] and was built by Shell and other oil companies in a joint partnership.

The maintenance and facilities are among the best in the country and traffic flow is one of the highest. In fact, in the first six months of the opening of Osubi Airstrip, more than 100,000 passengers passed through just as it handled 3,500 aircraft movements.

  • Osubi Airstrip has opened up Warri for businesses and investors who are assured of a quick, convenient and safe means of travel.
  • It has promoted safe air travel and general aviation operations with its ultra modern navigational and landing facilities.

There is presently an out cry to the federal government to upgrade the status to that of an airport because of the increase in air traffic.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN): Warri Airport
  2. ^ That's No Airport. In Nigeria, It's a Grand Illusion.. New York Times (May 26, 1999). Retrieved on 2008-01-13.
  3. ^ The Osubi Airstrip Success Story. Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria (October 2001). Retrieved on 2008-01-13.
  4. ^ Warri destinations from FareCompare.com

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