The Minister of Aviation,
Senator Hadi Sirika, said Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and Mallam Aminu Kano International
Airport, Kano are ready for recommencement of domestic flights.
The minister said
during the daily Presidential Task Force briefing on Monday in Abuja that
Lagos, Abuja, and Kano airports would recommence domestic flights on Wednesday.
He urged all
passengers and crews to obey the COVID-19 protocols to ensure the safety of the
airports and airplanes against the virus.
Sirika said that
five countries in Africa and over one hundred countries across the globe have
already started domestic air service.
On the preparation
on the airplanes, the minister stated that the last row of the aircraft would be
free so that persons with symptoms could be evacuated and kept there.
Sirika had recently
embarked on assessment of the airports which, he said, were 90 percent ready to
commence operations.
He said that what
remained was surface cleaning and bags provision which would be perfected as
soon as flight resumes.
The minister had
also maintained that non-traveling aides of all dignitaries would no longer be
allowed into the terminal as part of the new protocol.
On the time to be
spent with the new protocol, the minister said: “The experience is quite nice,
but it takes a bit of time which is why you will need to be at the airport
three hours before your departure time for local flights. For international
flights, we may do five hours.”
On the protocol
inside the flight, the minister said: “There would also be social distancing in
the aircraft. But new ideas were coming on board on how to remain seated to
make the cabin economically okay and to ensure Nigerians don’t infect each
other.
He added that those
new norms were coming and they would implement them in such a way that flights
were profitable.
“WHO and ICAO have
developed protocols of the sitting,” he said.
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