Max Air, one of the local operators, resumed its regular flights on Friday while attributing its Thursday flight delays at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja to scarcity of aviation fuel.
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Domestic airlines operating in Nigeria recorded 7,926 cases of delayed flights between January and March 2019.
The protesting unions are the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers
NAHCON Chairman, Abdullahi Muhktar, sounded the warning in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at a meeting with airline operators for the 2018 exercise
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the pilgrims were transported by Max Air in the early hours of the day from the Maiduguri International Airport.
The pilgrims departed the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport on board a Max Air Boeing 747 aircraft at exactly 12:23a.m. on Saturday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the airline deployed its Boeing 747-600 with registration number 5NDBK with 562 passengers seat capacity for the hajj operations.
Max Air Ltd, on Friday, says it has completed all arrangements to start transportation of over 26,000 intending Muslim pilgrims from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia for 2018 Hajj.
The flight, which departed from Aminu Kano International Airport at 8:10 a.m, had 27 adult and two children on board.
Alhaji Bashir Mangal, Vice Chairman, Max Air, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, said the airline would commence full operation on July 2.
Dahiru said the contract agreement was signed between the National Emergency Management Agency and the representative of Max Airline, Malam Shehu Wada, in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the last batch of 474 pilgrims was transported by Max Airline at about 3 a.m on Thursday.
The Airline’s Public Relations Manager, Alhaji Ibrahim Dahiru, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano.
The Public Relations Officer of the Airline, Alhaji Ibrahim Dahiru, said in a statement in Kano on Tuesday that all necessary arrangements for the smooth take-off had been completed