“The huge monthly salary associated with a bloated workforce will eventually kill the airline, which is not the intention of the current government," spokesman of the airline, Simon Tumba said in a statement.
The Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, has lamented the deplorable state of navigational aids at airports across the country, saying the situation was to blame for the many cases of cancelled flights due to poor visibility caused by the Harmattan haze.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has asked Arik Airline to pay a fine of N6m for the delay and inability to ferry its passengers’ luggage from London to Lagos on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of December, 2016.
