Denied flight: We’ll review air agreement with UK, says FG

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this known in a statement shortly after the announcement that the British authorities refused a Nigerian airline, Air Peace, landing permit to operate a repatriation flight scheduled to depart London Heathrow airport on Monday.had earlier reported that the planned evacuation of Nigerians stranded in UK amid the pandemic suffered a delay due to this factor as the flight is now billed for Gatwick airport on Tuesday.

Findings by our correspondent showed no fewer than 2,789 Britons have been repatriated home from Nigeria amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They were evacuated on 12 special flights most of which were operated by British airlines, according to information by the British High Commission in Nigeria. Reacting to the development, the minister said, “Having been allowed to carry out one very successful evacuation of Nigerians from London at very low fares, Air Peace in coordination with the Federal Government and full knowledge of the UK authorities scheduled two additional flights.

“Air Peace could have just refunded the passengers but exceptionally, patriotically and altruistically agreed to find an alternative carrier acceptable to the UK authorities to carry out the evacuation a day later than scheduled but for much higher fares.

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