BREAKING: Emirates Reveals When It Will Resume Flights Between Nigeria, Dubai
Emirates Airline, the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Wednesday, February 2, said it will resume passenger flight operations between Dubai and Nigeria on Saturday, February 5.
The airline said that passengers travelling to Dubai would undergo an additional COVID-19 test and remain in self-quarantine until the results of the test are out, The Cable reports.
Source: UGC
Emirates Airlines Ban: UAE reacts, says Air Peace demand unreasonable, makes new offer
Recall that following the ongoing diplomatic fireworks between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates, the Emirati Minister of Economy, Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, had said that it is unreasonable for the Arab nation to retain the slots of Nigeria-based Air Peace airline at the Sharjah International Airport.
The minister, who was also the chairman of the General Civil Aviation Authority in the UAE, said the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority’s action to limit Emirates’ flights to once weekly was unjustifiable.
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Al Marri made this known in a letter penned in December 2021, and addressed to the Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika.
Emirates Airline on Friday, December 10, announced the suspension of its flights to Nigeria, attributing its decision to the NCAA policy limiting its operation in the country to one flight per week.
Nigeria currently has signed BASAs with over 90 countries including the UAE. However, over the years, stakeholders have lamented that most air agreements between Nigeria and other countries have been one-sided as Nigerian airlines have been unable to reciprocate the agreements due to what they termed, “aero-politics”.
Currently, over 25 foreign airlines operate flights into Nigeria; some daily, from multiple destinations. While only one Nigerian airline operates internationally, while one or two others operate on regional routes.
According to Sirika, Nigeria signed its BASA with the UAE in December 2017 and Nigeria-based Medview Airlines had commenced direct flights from Lagos to Dubai via Abuja but the operations had hit the rocks when the airline faced a crisis.
While Emirates Airline has been plying multiple frequencies to-and-fro the Abuja and Lagos airports, no Nigerian airline operated the routes for years after Medview Airlines’ short stint until recently when Air Peace reactivated the route.
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