NCAA summons airlines over flight disruptions, unruly passengers

By Dickson Omobola

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has summoned home airlines implicit formation disruptions and unruly rider behaviour.

This comes little than 24 hours aft the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, ordered the NCAA to publically sanction and shame airlines that interruption the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations connected formation disruptions.

Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Mr Michael Achimugu, disclosed connected X that the gathering is scheduled to beryllium held successful Abuja tomorrow.

He stated: “NCAA has invited each home airlines to a gathering successful Abuja slated for tomorrow, Wednesday.

“Among the issues to beryllium treated are 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 crew. Improved question acquisition for passengers.”

Yesterday, Achimugu warned that situations wherever hose unit intentionally disappear, leaving NCAA Consumer Protection officers to grip irate and frustrated passengers implicit disrupted flights, would nary longer beryllium tolerated.

He said: “The national authorities has instructed that airlines beryllium named and shamed by the NCAA. While we person done our champion to counsel per solutions to formation disruptions and wherefore astir each cases are the responsibility of the airlines, the NCAA expects that operators indispensable comply with the regulations successful the lawsuit of a disruption.”

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