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- United Airlines, the American carrier, has resumed the Lagos-U.S. route. This offers Nigerian travellers an option on the transatlantic corridor
- Â For the last five years so, this service was nonoperational
- Â Now, there are three weekly non-stop flights connecting Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, and Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington.
- At the inaugural flight, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, said United’s return to Nigeria would bring positive economic benefits with safety and security offerings to the two countries
United Airlines, the American carrier, has resumed the Lagos-U.S. route. This offers Nigerian travelers an option on the transatlantic corridor. For the last five years, this service was non operational. Now, there are three weekly non-stop flights connecting Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, and Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington.
At the inaugural flight, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, said United’s return to Nigeria would bring positive economic benefits with safety and security offerings to the two countries. She hoped that it would also enrich people to people contacts and would bring new opportunities to travel companies.
The Nigerians feel the visa processing to the US should be speeded up. The Ambassador while thanking the Nigerians for their patience in bearing with the delay in issuing the visa, hoped that  visa issues would be sorted out sooner or later. There are over 15,000 student visa requests lately received and are still pending.
United is the first and only airline serving Washington, D.C. nonstop from Lagos. Delta Airlines is now connecting Atlanta. The United has deployed the state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft for the service with all modern facilities. The service will provide a key gateway between Lagos and Washington D.C., as well as easy one-stop connections to almost 80 destinations across the Americas, including Houston and Chicago.
