The national association of Nigeria travel agencies (NANTA) says British Airways (BA) has closed inventory on Nigeria in the global distribution system (GDS), over foreign airlines’ trapped $464 million. Susan Akporiaye, president of NANTA, said this on Friday. A global distribution system (GDS) is a computerised network system owned or operated by a company that
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British Airways flight lands in Lagos with 253 Nigerians evacuated from UK
THE DAILY VENDOR has learnt that no fewer than 253 Nigerians who opted for evacuation from the United Kingdom (UK) by the Nigerian Government arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. It was gathered that the British Airways flight, a Boeing 747 BA9155 with registration Number G-CIVO, which conveyed the Nigerian citizens back home,
Read moreBREAKING: UK evacuates 250 of its citizens from Nigeria
Over 250 British nationals departed Nigeria for the UK on Friday on a special return chartered flight organised between the UK and Nigerian governments. The British High Commissioner for Nigeria, Catriona Laing, made this known in a statement on Friday. Laing said that the outward journey also brought back over 200 Nigerian nationals from London
Read moreBritish Airways Flight BA75 Passengers Advised to Self-Isolate
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health Akin Abayomi has asked passengers on the same flight with the third coronavirus patient in Nigeria to isolate for 14 days. According to the Lagos State Ministry of Health, the third coronavirus patient is a Nigerian, who returned from the United Kingdom last Friday. “If you are a passenger
Read moreHow British Airways Dumped Us In Ghana to Find Our Way to Lagos – Nigerian Passenger
Although flight services have since resumed this week, the dust raised by last week’s disruptions is yet to settle. Just yesterday, a score of passengers arrived Lagos from Accra, Ghana, where they had been ferried and allegedly abandoned by British Airways since last week. The travelers, who could not make it to Lagos by road
Read moreAirlines Ground Flights to China Over Corona Virus
Seven airlines have announced that they are halting or reducing flights to China as the country struggles to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The airlines are Air France, British Airways, United Airlines, Lion Air, Finnair, Cathay Pacific and Urals Airlines Air France suspended its three weekly flights to Wuhan on January 24, but
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