Margaret Ekpo International Airport , also known as Calabar Airport, is an airport serving Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State in Nigeria. The airport is named after Margaret Ekpo, who was one of Nigeria's pioneering feminists and anticolonial activists. It was commissioned in 1983 by Alhaji Shehu Shagari, then president of Nigeria.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
These data show the number of passengers' movements into the airport, according to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria's Aviation Sector Summary Reports. Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Passengers 136,153 167,767 207,542 273,586 316,736 281,935 153,068 206,168 198,157 204,036 189,908 Growth (%) 4.40% 23.22% 23.71% 31.82% 15.77% 10.99% 45.71% 34.69% 3.89% 2.97% 6.92% Source: Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Aviation Sector Reports (2010-2013,Passenger Only Aviation Data Report 2010-13 to Q1 2014 2014,Aviation Sector Summary Report Q4 2014 - Q1 2015 Q3-Q4 of 2015,NIGERIA AVIATION SECTOR Q3-Q4 2015 REPORT and Q1-Q2 of 2016Nigerian Aviation Sector Summary Report: Q1-Q2 2016)
See also Transport in Nigeria List of airports in Nigeria List of the busiest airports in Africa
References
External links Accident history for CBQ at Aviation Safety Network SkyVector - Margaret Ekpo