As Nigeria’s Christmas travel season takes flight, a stark new financial frontier is emerging in the nation’s skies: the cost of domestic air travel has become one of the most tangible measures of regional economic pressure.
With demand peaking and capacity stretched thin, passengers heading to certain states are now paying premiums that eclipse the national average a phenomenon that has turned popular holiday routes into some of the most expensive in the world by local standards.
Recent transport fare data show that airfare inflation is unevenly distributed. A handful of states, buoyed by high demand, limited entry points, and constrained flight schedules, are now commanding ticket prices far higher than those of their neighbors.