International Flights Resumption: PTF Differs As Sirika Fixes August 29 

International Flights Resumption: PTF Differs As Sirika Fixes August 29 
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday announced that international flights into and out of Nigeria would resume on August 29.
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, however, said that the date was not sacrosanct.
International flights were suspended by the Federal Government across the country about five months as a result of the global outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sirika announced the resumption date for international flights at Monday’s briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, after tweeting same via his Twitter handle earlier.
He stated that as a result of resumption, all evacuation flights which were introduced across the country in the wake of the ban on international flights, would end on August 25. Sirika said Nigeria’s international airports had reached advanced stages of preparedness for the resumption of international flight operations.
He further disclosed that like it was done during the resumption of domestic flights across the country, the international flights would commence with two major airports.
He named the airports as the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Sirika said emphasis would be placed on the observation of all the safety and technical guidelines as prescribed by global and health authorities, which would be communicated in due course. (Punch)

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