STRANDED ARIK PASSENGERS AT THE AIRPORT THIS MORNING.

LAGOS, September 20, (THEWILL) – All Arik Air flights from Lagos have been grounded by labour unions over unpaid dues to them.

Aviation Union leaders and their members stormed the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport as early as 7.am to block the carrier from operating its normal flights out of Lagos, THEWILL can report.


Some stranded passengers who emailed and sent text messages on the development said union members claim their agencies are being owed over N17 billion naira in unpaid dues by the carrier.


They alleged that the airline owes NAMA, FAAN, NCAA, all federal government aviation agency various sums running into billions of naira.

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Debtors that cant maintain clean accounts are the ones running flying business. GOD bless us and save souls

9jvirgin: Debtors that cant maintain clean accounts are the ones running flying business. GOD bless us and save souls

Wonderful

So what's gonna happen to their stranded customers now?

Lol...Nigeria...land of anything goes.

:ona waw..!!

I am yet to understand why is it that it is only nigerian owned airflight company that always run into lots of debt.Air Nigeria bankrupt,arik owning alot of debt.Whereas the foreign operated airflights are doing very well.
Does it mean that airflight industries is not profitable or nigerians lack good management policy or corruption where the nigerian owners just come to the airflight industries to make quick money,embezzle alot and leave the industry bankrupt having stolen enough.Please someone should shed more light.

Whatever man! D country is already fuuckedd!

Is Arik about doing 'an air Nigeria?'

Na wa o....we need to press reset button for dis country

tunapawizzy: Na wa o....we need to press reset button for dis country

...and our stupid FG will fold their hands and do nothing. Staff not being paid their salaries, the likes of Arik, First Nation and Air Nigeria guilty of this, now running businesses into crazy debt, and publicly scamming customers... When will this Government get it right and learn? ... Our to be "National Carrier oooo"

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prince FAD: I am yet to understand why is it that it is only nigerian owned airflight company that always run into lots of debt.Air Nigeria bankrupt,arik owning alot of debt.Whereas the foreign operated airflights are doing very well.
Does it mean that airflight industries is not profitable or nigerians lack good management policy or corruption where the nigerian owners just come to the airflight industries to make quick money,embezzle alot and leave the industry bankrupt having stolen enough.Please someone should shed more light.

. The aviation buisness is quite a tricky one, many Airlines do run into debt not only Nigerian owned airlines

Temistatics 007: So what's gonna happen to their stranded customers now?

Go and fly Aero @ double the price or join Ekene Dili Chukwu, Young Shall Grow and co. Mrs. Oduah reform at work.

I pity dia customers sha.

If we were in a country with working judiciary system, the passengers would have sued the airline for damages. God will help us.

I attended a seminar sometime lastyear. In attendance was The CEO of Diamond bank who also was a keynote speaker.

The guy said anyone thinking of venturing into the aviation business in Nigeria should think again. He clearly stated that all the airlines owned by Nigerians are running at a loss. It is only a matter of time before they'll be grounded.

Here we are, a few months later Air Nigeria has packed up. Arik air grounded. Aero contractors is busy cancelling or rescheduling flights.

Na wa ooo

Am I correct to say, with this, only Aero is now operating on domestic routes? Na wa o. Spaces will now be so competitive that even if you book ahead and you dont get to airport thre hours before departure, you will lose your space. Na real wa.

tunapawizzy: Na wa o....we need to press reset button for dis country

I concore

Fact is that the running a domestic airline with the present structure in the aviation industry ain't profitable, this is well known.

tunapawizzy: Na wa o....we need to press reset button for dis country

Abi may God help us!

gulfer: Go and fly Aero @ double the price or join Ekene Dili Chukwu, Young Shall Grow and co. Mrs. Oduah reform at work.

Aero is cheaper than Arik.

Been studying the Nigerian aviation industry a while and in my opinion it fails in more than a few aspects to be defined as a real business.

Nigeria is just not the place to operate an airline and if not that the industry's principal ethos is safety, I won't have bothered to comment.

I think its time we reform our Aviation sector. Nigerians can't always be victim of their detbs.

prince FAD: I am yet to understand why is it that it is only nigerian owned airflight company that always run into lots of debt.Air Nigeria bankrupt,arik owning alot of debt.Whereas the foreign operated airflights are doing very well.
Does it mean that airflight industries is not profitable or nigerians lack good management policy or corruption where the nigerian owners just come to the airflight industries to make quick money,embezzle alot and leave the industry bankrupt having stolen enough.Please someone should shed more light.

It is a combination of all your points and a few more. Essentially our airline business models are just wrong. For starters how many tickets will Arik sell to generate a whooping 17 billion. And that's just statutory debt. The cost structure is just wrong. With that sort of debt its just a matter of time they meet at the pub with Jimoh.

Hehehe....

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prince FAD: I am yet to understand why is it that it is only nigerian owned airflight company that always run into lots of debt.Air Nigeria bankrupt,arik owning alot of debt.Whereas the foreign operated airflights are doing very well.
Does it mean that airflight industries is not profitable or nigerians lack good management policy or corruption where the nigerian owners just come to the airflight industries to make quick money,embezzle alot and leave the industry bankrupt having stolen enough.Please someone should shed more light.

its a nigerian thing. their managers are busy using company mony for private investments.

kooto:
Aero is cheaper than Arik.

I know; but refering to the current situation, traffic will increase and consequently scarcity of tickets.

Na wa ooo!