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Harmattan Grounds Foreign, Domestic Flights In Nigeria

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February 13, 2020
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Harmattan Grounds Foreign, Domestic Flights In Nigeria

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Harmattan hays have caused flight cancellation and delay in the Nigerian Aviation sector grounding foreign airlines throughout the week. The harmattan has led to poor visibility for the planes intending to fly in or out of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos State.

A British Airways flight which was expected to land on Sunday had to divert to Ghana with passengers stranded in Accra since then. The British Airways flight is yet to land in Nigeria as of Wednesday. Cancellations have also affected flights from Qatar Airways, Emirates, Delta Airways and KLM. Flights from Virgin were however not affected.

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The delay has negatively affected most business travellers who were rushing to come back to Nigeria to take advantage of valentine sales.

Companies like Air Peace and Arik had to issue weather advisory to passengers as the foggy weather worsened on Wednesday, January 12, 2020. The cancellation of scheduled flights and delays in takeoff have been ongoing for the past two days. Air Peace’s Corporate Communications Executive, Stanley Olisa and Arik Air’s Public Relations and Communications Manager, Adebanji Ola both confirmed the delays and cancellations, stating that the actions were necessary for safety.

READ ALSO: Bad weather disrupts flights in Nigeria

The poor visibility caused by the harmattan also led American carrier, Delta Airlines, to cancel its 10:30 pm flight on Wednesday.

The most affected areas are reportedly Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Benin, where harmattan presence has been strong. The Director, Consumer Protection Council of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Adamu Abdullahi, had previously stated that such decisions were inevitable.

Abdullahi said due to safety issues, flight delays and outright cancellation were unavoidable in the aviation industry globally. He cited weather, mechanical failure and Very Important Personality movements as factors that could cause delays in the aviation.

He added that “When safety is involved, we don’t discuss comfort and we even encourage airlines to delay or cancel flights whenever they have technical issues or weather-related issues. So, when an airline can prove to us that it delayed a flight due to safety, they are off the hook.”

He, however, said the regulatory agencies should ensure passengers are rewarded for the delay and sanction airlines that don’t fulfill its obligation to passengers in the period of flight delays or cancellation.

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