Enhancing airports’ flight efficiency Local carriers have, in the last 12 years, lamented the additional costs borne on aviation fuel for aircraft taxiing to take-off at the runway of the Lagos Airport international wing after sunset, because the local wing runway lacks airfield lighting. But aircraft in the coming weeks can take-off and land at the domestic Runway 18 Left as the Federal Government completes civil works and installation of lights at the facility. KELVIN OSA-OKUNBOR reports. Domestic carriers are upbeat over plans by the Federal Government to complete repairs for the installation of airfield lighting and other civil components on Runway 18 Left in the Domestic Terminal 1, of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos. The carriers are excited that the government has risen to the occasion by fixing a critical airport|air navigation gap in the strategic air transport industry. The move by the government, it was learnt, came on the heels of persistent complaints by indigenous carriers that they were burning additional resources in procuring expensive jet fuel to move their airplanes on the taxi-ways after sunset from the local wing of the airport to the alternate runway at the international wing of the aerodrome.