By Anthony Bishop Digest General Correspondent
The Federal Government has increased available seats on the flights of international airlines to 200 passengers per aircraft operating into the two designated airports.
The capacity increase has been communicated to all foreign airline operators flying into Nigeria. British Airways, Middle East Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Kenyan Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Qatar Airways, RwandAir, Africa World Airlines, Asky, Air Cote d’Ivoire, Delta Airlines, and Egypt Air were the currently approved carriers to operate into the country.
The Government has granted Emirates Airlines approval to operate international flights into Nigeria’s airspace. The approval followed an undertaking by the authorities of the United Arabs Emirates (UAE). Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, said the commencement of the airline’s operations would depend on the take off of visa issuance by the UAE to Nigerians. The statement said the minister hailed the “understanding of everyone who has been negatively affected by the recent policy decisions which forbade some airlines from some airlines to sell into Nigeria” . The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
