Hundreds of air travelers booked on Nigerian Arik airline are presently stranded across the usa, following the incapacity of the airline to airlift them to their locations.
Seeing that early morning nowadays, none of the airline’s aircraft has been operated to any locations in Nigeria, West Africa and different routes.
Reporters learnt that the huge money owed of the airline to main oil marketers who frequently supply aviation gasoline is in part responsible for the current situation of the airline. A source told our journalists that similarly to the airline's incapacity to buy for gas, its insurers in Europe and someplace else had withdrawn insurance cover from the airline forcing the airline to stop flight operations altogether.
A source near the oil marketers advised our correspondent that the airline is a bad debtor because it presently owes at the least N3 billion to all its suppliers, a scenario, which has made them no longer to supply Jet A1 to the airline.
The sordid situation may additionally have an effect on the airline’s long-haul operations to Heathrow Airport in London and the big apple in the u.s. of the united states.
some of the early morning flights of Arik Air encompass Lagos-Abuja at 6:forty five am and 7:30, Abuja-Lagos at eight:00 and 9:00. Others are Benin, Port Harcourt, Asaba, and Kano.
A passenger with the airline, Chris Amokwu informed our correspondent that he have been on the airport as early as 7:00 for a 7:30 am flight to Abuja, however as at 1 pm, he became but to understand if he would finally make the experience to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
consistent with him, the airline attributed its inability to operate to the scarcity of Jet A1 and bad weather condition.
but, Reporters can affirm that Jet A1 is available in the local scene as airways like Med-View, Air Peace and Landover airways have been working given that morning regardless of the alleged scarcity of aviation fuel and terrible climate by using the airline.
when our correspondent contacted the spokesman of the airline, Ola Adebanji, he said he became not aware of the improvement as he turned into nevertheless bereaved, having lost his mother over the weekend.
Arik Air is the 0.33 airline to close down flight operations in Nigeria in the ultimate three weeks following the suspension of flight by way of Aero Contractors and first nation.
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