PASSENGERS on Nigerian domestic carrier, Dana Air, were stranded for at least 14 hours at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Friday, as three scheduled flights by the airline were delayed.

“No apology was tendered. We were left to our fate. They showed no concern after some of us paid about N100,000 for the flight,” one of the passengers, Atsenokhai Aloy, told The ICIR.

Among the abandoned passengers were pregnant women, nursing mothers and their babies, he said.

Aloy had thought of arriving early in Lagos Friday evening to sleep in his home, but he was abandoned with scores of other passengers by Dana Air at Abuja Airport lobby till 8am Saturday, when the flight conveying him and others finally arrived.

He said by 1am on Saturday, an aircraft landed and picked passengers that were supposed to fly at 11am the previous day.

He said he had arrived at the airport and checked in before 6pm on Friday. But getting to the departure hall, he met scores of other passengers who were supposed to have left for Lagos but stranded.

“I slept in the airport waiting for a flight!! Dana air kept passengers including nursing mothers, pregnant women, and children in the airport from 7pm yesterday till this time I am typing this message (Saturday morning).

“We were all checked in and given our boarding pass. But there was no aircraft to convey us! From 7pm yesterday till now, myself and several other passengers are all seated in the departure hall of Abuja Airport waiting for the aircraft that will take us to Lagos.

“I have heard of delayed flights, but never in my life did I ever imagine that I will sleep in the airport waiting endlessly for a flight that no one knows when it will arrive.

“At some point, three different sets of passengers bound for Lagos were all waiting. There was no aircraft and Dana wasn’t ready to give us any sensible explanation. I am sure they know that there won’t be consequences for this unbelievable service failure. After all, this is Nigeria…

“By 1am, one aircraft landed. It picked passengers that were supposed to fly at 11am yesterday. Passengers scheduled for 11am flight on Friday morning eventually left by 1am on Saturday morning. I was scheduled for 7pm and I am still here. I have been in the airport for over 10hrs!!!

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Shit happens

Instead of them to go upgrade their selves
They're busy fighting Onyema through FG

Fools

It will never be well with Clara

Stfu. We complain too much

This experience is not a funny one. It must have cost some people alot. Flight delays are becoming so common and it's unfair, after all the rush to check in and wait. The last place to wait is at the airport, everywhere is buzzy.

JaneYave:
This experience is not a funny one. It must have cost some people alot. Flight delays are becoming so common and it's unfair, after all the rush to check in and wait. The last place to wait is at the airport, everywhere is buzzy.

It was not a palatable experience. Our 11:40am flight didn't leave until 7:30pm. I checked in around 10:25am. I even missed my appointment in Lagos.

OP, just a little correction, 11:00am passengers didn't leave at 1:00am the following day, we left the airport at 7:30pm on Friday. Dana Air didn't even offer us ordinary water.

That thing can pain o

IamR:

It was not a palatable experience. Our 11:40am flight didn't leave until 7:30pm. I checked in around 10:25am. I even missed my appointment in Lagos.

OP, just a little correction, 11:00am passengers didn't leave at 1:00am the following day, we left the airport at 7:30pm on Friday. Dana Air didn't even offer us ordinary water.

Missing some appointments cost alot. Sorry, you had to go through all that.