Flight resumption date -FG to announce next week

The Federal Government says it will announce next week, a date for the commencement of the domestic flight.

The Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika stated this in Abuja on Thursday during the briefing by the members of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.

Hadi Sirika also announced that a dry run test would be conducted at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja as part of the preparation to commence flight operation in line with international standard.

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The Aviation Minister represented by the Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu said: “Since the last announcement that Sunday 21st of June is no longer feasible for the opening of the airports, we would like to report that we have had significant progress in the readiness of the industry to restart.

“After the dry runs, we will observe the gaps that might still be there and close them. After that, we will announce the date of the restart next week.

“Aviation is already a very complex system on its own and by the time you add the COVID-19 pandemic to it, it complicates a very complex system. We will not take any chance. We are almost there. When we close the few remaining gaps in the aviation ecosystem, we will start.”