FAAN Rejects CNN’s Ranking of Port Harcourt Airport as “World’s Worst Airport”

A few days ago, CNN published an article on the World’s Worst Airports for 2015, stating that Port Harcourt Airport is the worst in the world.

And now, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has released a statement refuting the report, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports:

Our stand is that the said ranking was unfounded as it did not take cognizance of the fact that the airport terminal was still undergoing remodeling. Some of its terminal operations are still conducted in a temporary structure.

Apart from this, construction work is also in progress at the site of the new international terminal. We believe that operations at such an airport where construction work is going on simultaneously with normal flight and related operations cannot be as conducive as in those airports where there are no on-going construction projects.

Neither can environments at such different scenarios be equally clean, the statement added.

We wish to assure all passengers, airline operators and other airport users that services at our airports are delivered at recommended international standards that ensure safety, security and comfort.

While we regret any inconvenience experienced at these airports, including Port Harcourt International Airport, due to on-going construction projects, we promise that services at these airports will surely get better at the completion of these projects.