Nigeria Aviation crisis as top Airlines lose 40,000 passengers daily.

Nigeria Aviation crisis as top Airlines lose 40,000 passengers daily

Nigeria Aviation crisis as top Airlines lose forty thousand passengers
daily part of the country to another is still shaky as Nigerian
national airlines are currently short of about forty thousad aircraft
seats daily,
This shortage is due to the suspension of operation by five national
airlines, namely Air Nigeria, FirstNation Airlines, Dana Air,
Chanchangi Airlines and Associated Airlines.
The five airlines used to supply combined monthly seats of about
1,174,500 from a total of twenty nine aircraft, according to the
investigation.
Further investigation showed that the three airlines currently
operating have a total of forty aircraft. Eleven out the forty
airlines are, currently under routine maintenance in outside
country,depleting the current domestic capacity further by a total of
445,500 monthly seats.
This gives a combined capacity shortage of 1,620,000 aircraft seats
every month, including the five airlines that are currently on board.
The development has led to untold difficulties for passengers at
different airport terminals, especially in port like Lagos, Abuja,
Port Harcourt and Kano.
Passengers are now faced with long hours of delays, abrupt flight
cancellations and they are unable to get flight tickets as at when
needed. Air fares have gone up astronomically as well.
While Air Nigeria, First Nation, Chanchangi and Associated airlines
voluntarily suspended their flight operations owing to various known
and unknown reasons, Dana airlines was forced to do so by the Federal
Government of Nigeria after the tragic crash that killed 163 people in
Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, on June 3 2012.