Arik Air Bombardier DHC-8-400 © Bombardier Nigeria’s Arik Air (W3, Lagos ), currently in receivership, has announced the resumption of normal flight operations after resolving what it called an “impasse” with the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) claiming that “the incessant union unrest has finally been put behind us”.
The airline in a statement said normal schedules had resumed after striking NUATE members on December 3 and 4 had disrupted the airline’s flights and operations, preventing passengers’ processing at the domestic terminals of Lagos . The employees responded to the airline’s sacking of 300 employees last week because of the impact of COVID-19.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that placard-carrying members of NUATE and the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) had also blocked the entrance of the airline’s head office in Lagos. The unions alleged that several staff members had been furloughed for too long and that pensions were being owed.
NUATE General-Secretary Aba Ocheme confirmed to Punch newspaper that the strike had been suspended pending negotiations with Arik Air management this week. He…
The Nigerian government is to reopen Kano and Port Harcourt Omagwa for international flights to relieve congestion at Lagos and Abuja , which already reopened to foreign traffic in September.
Nigerian media reports this was disclosed by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director-General Musa Nuhu while briefing a daily presidential taskforce meeting on COVID-19 in Abuja on November 12, 2020. Nuhu did not mention a date for the re-opening. He said Nigeria’s Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) was working to resolve 24-hour port health arrangements at the two airports. Once this was finalised, both Kano and Port Harcourt would resume international operations.
Nigeria has been re-opening its airports in phases, starting in July and August with domestic operations, followed by international flights from Lagos and Abuja on September 5, 2020.
According to the ch-aviation schedules module, Badr Airlines (J4, Khartoum ) and Mid Africa Aviation (MFG, Banjul ) used to codeshare (flight J4 650) between Khartoum and Kano twice-weekly, although Mid Africa Aviation’s Air Operators Certification has reportedly expired….
Several airlines, including Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson ), Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int’l ), and Dana Air (9J, Lagos ) suspended flights to Lagos between October 20 and October 23, 2020, after curfews were imposed following violent protests in Nigeria.
Amnesty International earlier in the week reported protesters had been shot dead by security […]
