JUST-IN: NCAA Bars Pilots From Flying With Unruly Passenger

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has barred each pilots from flying their planes with unruly passenger(s) connected board.

NCAA Director of Public Relations and Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, announced the determination connected Wednesday successful an ongoing gathering with each home airlines successful Abuja.

The NCAA said that considering the risks progressive successful hose business, it was unacceptable that passengers who are unruly to pilots oregon compartment unit are allowed to alert without resolving the issues astatine stake.

Achimugu said the pilots are allowed to alert aft the issues person been resolved amicably oregon the unruly rider removed from the aircraft.

He, however, warned compartment unit to behave professionally, noting that the NCAA is ever down the hose operators erstwhile it comes to the contented of unruly passengers.

Also speaking, Mrs Ifueko Abdulmalik, the elder peculiar adjunct to the director-general of the NCAA, warned that the NCAA volition authorisation airlines for neglecting passengers aft formation delays and cancellations without decently taking attraction of them.

Among the issues been addressed astatine the ongoing gathering connected Wednesday greeting include: “Unruly rider behaviour and rider handling protocols; Unresolved refund/compensation issues; Introduction of RFID bagtags and formation monitoring technology; Enforcement of telephone switch-off acquisition and extortion for compartment unit arsenic good arsenic Improved question acquisition for passengers.

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