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US Carrier, United Airlines, Stops Flights To Nigeria by Nobody: 6:44am On May 27, 2016
Due to economic hardship the country is facing left, right, up and down are making many companies shifting ground especially multinational ones. Some of them find it difficult to carry out their commercial activities and meeting their obligations also to repatriate their earnings back home.

According to news from Punch Newspaper, United States carrier, United Airlines, will stop flying to Nigeria next month, ending operations on its only African route because of weakness in the energy sector and difficulties in repatriating money from tickets sold in the country.
This came barely six weeks after Spain’s national carrier, Iberia Plc, stopped flights to Nigeria, citing dwindling passenger traffic as the reason.
United Airlines said in a note to employees on Wednesday that the daily route from Houston to Lagos had underachieved for years but was kept alive because of its importance to Texas-based customers.

The last flight will be on June 30, 2016, after which Delta Air Lines will be the only major US carrier flying to Africa.....

http://www.punchng.com/us-carrier-united-airlines-stops-flights-nigeria/

Re: US Carrier, United Airlines, Stops Flights To Nigeria by coolcharm(m): 6:57am On May 27, 2016
Nigerians should fly Arik Air
Re: US Carrier, United Airlines, Stops Flights To Nigeria by justwise(m): 6:57am On May 27, 2016

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