Passenger who have travelled back to Nigeria since international flight operations reopened on September 5, 2020, have complained of delays at the coronavirus screening procedure where arriving passengers are made to spend hours before they are attended to by port health officials. THISDAY learnt that the passengers are also made to pay for COVID-19 tests, […]
A 72-year old male passenger on Air Peace Calabar- Abuja Flight P47182, Friday died on board while the flight was airborne. Informed source from the Margret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar disclosed that the deceased had a case of paraplegia due to spinal injury since 2019 and had been on medication and going for check up […]
Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace has denied airlifting a passenger suspected of Coronavirus infection on its Lagos-Kano flight on Tuesday. The management of the airline explained that a 13 year-old boy who was accompanied by his parents but flying for the first time suffered from flight phobia and vomited in the aircraft enroute Kano. Air […]
A Nigerian passenger who was billed to travel from Lagos to Asaba on Air Peace flight on Friday was stopped and isolated by the airline’s Coronavirus screening team when they discovered that he was very sick. An official of the airline told THISDAY that the passenger was supposed to travel on Monday but deferred his […]
The Federal Airports of Nigeria, FAAN, today, May 31, 2017, carried out a simulation exercise at the airside of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. The exercise was aimed at demonstrating the Authority’s readiness to ensure that all cases of aircraft emergencies would be controlled whenever the need arises. Present at […]
