Arik Air have announced the temporal
suspension of all their flight operations between Lagos, Nigeria and
Johannesburg, South Africa with
immediate effect.
The decision to suspend the daily
B737-800 service between the two financial hubs was taken due to the
ongoing dispute between international airlines operating into
Johannesburg and Port Health authorities over yellow fever documentation
being presented to authorities at OR Tambo International Airport by
passengers.
This has resulted in many of the passengers been detained and refused entry
into the country in recent months. Port Health authorities cited the
reasoning as being incorrect or unrecognised batch numbers on the
documentation, which is a mandatory proof before entrance to the
country.
The situation has escalated, culminating
in hundreds of Nigerian and other West African passengers travelling
from the region being refused entry, including 50 passengers who
travelled on Arik Air on March 2.
Arik said the irregular nature of this
protocol was having a negative impact on its passengers and did not wish
to proceed with operations into a country where its customers are at
risk of being detained or any other measures meted out arbitrarily by
the authorities.
Culled from(Leadership.ng)
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