The Federal Government has penalised a British airline, Flairjet, for operating commercial flights into Nigeria in contravention to the ban on such flights.
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known on Sunday via his verified Twitter handle.
According to him the airline contravened section 1.3.3 of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations 2015.
He said: “Flairjet were found to violate our Civil Aviation Regulations IS 1.3.3(a) Table 2(IV)7(a) and IS 1.3.3 (a) Table 2(VIII)(4). The maximum penalty for each is N500,000:00K. We caused them to pay and reported their callous misdemeanor to UK CAA, MFA and the UK High Commission.”
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The aircraft, a Legacy 600 with registration number GPRFX, was impounded on May 17, while on an unauthorised commercial trip into the country.
The pilots were quarantined for 14 days.
According to the aviation minister, the company had applied for humanitarian flights but was caught operating commercial flights into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
