•Says VIP escorts’ll be banned from terminals

•As Netherlands evacuates 71 citizens

Chinelo Obogo

THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said passengers should brace up for rigorous health checks at the airports, flight delays and increase in airfare when restrictions are lifted and operations resume post COVID-19.

Speaking at an aviation webinar organised by Women in Aviation (WIA) Nigeria, with the theme: Aviation: The New Norm in the post COVID-19, the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, said passengers should expect delays and long hours of checks and re-checks right from when they arrive the airport and departs as the agency has put arrangements in place regarding passenger facilitation and what to expect.

She said escorts of Very Important Persons (VIPs) would no longer be allowed to follow their principals into the terminal and such principals would be subjected to all its health checks. She said passengers are expected to leave home early hours before their flights in order to go through the various checks before entering the terminal and after.

“We are going to expect flight delays; flights will experience delays because of checks and re checks. If you are travelling, I will expect a potential traveler to leave home hours before his flight, why do I say this? Because there is going to be a lot of checks in the front of the terminal.

We have been told that some activities and procedures will take place in front of the terminal. So air travelers are expected to leave home very early so that they can get to the
airport on time.”

The FAAN spokesperson also explained that passengers should expect that airlines would charge more in terms of airfare, adding that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that there would be 45 per cent increase
in fares.

Yakubu stated that the COVID-19 had brought a lot of changes to air travel and to ensure the safety of passengers and airport users the way
of doing things before have to change, adding that the pandemic would make people cut down on non-essentials and lead to low demand of air travel.

At all airports, she said social distancing would be 100 percent, temperature screening,
wearing of face masks, disinfection of shoes and luggage of passengers would also be carried out 100 per cent regardless of personalities.

“There will be floor markings indicating where each passenger will wait on the queue, arriving passengers will also be subjected to temperature
screening, physical distancing too will be observed while passengers are waiting by the carousel to pick up their luggage.

Passengers are expected to arrive the airport with their face masks on, their luggage and
pairs of shoes to be disinfected.

Passengers are expected to observe social/physical distancing. “Passengers will subject themselves to temperature screening and departure halls will be arranged in such a way that physical distancing too will be observed,” Yakubu said.

In her contribution, Ebele Okoye, General Manager Customer Service/SERVICOM, FAAN, harped on the decongestion of the terminal building especially outside where all sorts of people who do not have business at the airport mill around.

According to her, in reducing contact, the days of opening people’s bag at the airport to search what is inside should be done away with. Okoye urged passengers to save themselves the stress of coming to the airport to buy tickets rather they
buy their tickets online, check in online and pay for their trolleys online to reduce the hours
they would have to spend carrying out these activities.

“Social security can be done, online ticket purchase: I am sure that the airline will notify
the people who purchase their ticket online to check in online and decongest the terminal
building. There would be no hangers around, touts should be out of the airport, anyone
not travelling should not be allowed to enter the airport.

How do passengers get their trolley?
They can pay online, you don’t need contacts,” she said.

In a related development, the government of Netherlands on Tuesday, evacuated 71 of its citizens from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The Boeing
767-300 airlifted 71 passengers from MMIA to Accra.

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It's one thing to lay out rules and another thing for those rules to be strictly enforced.


FTC!!!

Like seriously, FTC!!!!

Oga Seen you already have my account details, do the needful

some of this rules makes no sense .

disinfect shoes and Paying for trolleys online makes no sense.

You took it out of my mouth bro

Moneywirer:
It's one thing to lay out rules and another thing for those rules to be strictly enforced.

Hhahahahah

NaijaRoyalty:
some of this rules don't make sense

disinfect shoes and Paying for trolleys online makes no sense.

Useless Nigerian Government.


They want to kill us by force.


Abasiiiii

make them open inter state I get contract for other state please Mr president before I join this guys En take you people down one by one

They are not saying anything about when schools will reopen.

Okay

I need an Instagram account with 10k+ followers. Dm me if you got any.

as if black people will follow this rules

If the airports are open schools too must not be left behind..

Ok

k

Yinmu.. rigourous health check koor, fantabulous oiin check nii

didnt the Aviation Minister and Health Minister assure us all that there was no need for shutting our Airports and that they had procured millions worth scanners that can flag out corrona virus, and we shouldnt panic as every one was safe, now people are dying daily because of that stupid move, yet again they are telling us another trash

The most reasonable thing to do now is to deploy as many Rapid Test Kit as we can purchase at our Arrival wings of the Airport, and Passengers must undergoe checks with the rapid test kit, and also drop samples for 48hrs testing at the NCDC accredited Labs... anybody who got a positive result from the Rapid test Kit should be detained till the 48hrs NCDC results comes out

For maximum Complaince, Military Doctors and Nurses should be deployed at all airports to handle the test and screening as useless FAAN beggars calling themselves airport officials would compromise for 50 naira bribe
.

The question is are we disciplined to follow them? Audio guidelines

Lockdown isn't fashionable and sustainable any longer.

WHO says the virus has come to say just like the others.

We have to find a way around it and live with it.

Next is to reopen schools and other businesses

NaijaRoyalty:
some of this rules makes no sense .

disinfect shoes and Paying for trolleys online makes no sense.

You daft gan ooooo
of all the rules they listed
na dis one u con bring out

even for fvck's sake I don't see anything wrong in disinfecting shoes that carry viruses and paying for trolleys online to avoid social Interactions



you just like criticizing a lot
that you can't applaud them for this brilliant plan

Na by force to enter plane??
Is it that the jet fuel price have increased too?

So you guys want to put all the burden on passengers?

ok

Buy ticket online, check in online, pay for trolley online. Make Dem kuku fly online na

Disinfect shoes and luggage ko, na today? D same way wey dem check pipul wey carry covid19 enter 9ja. Mk I hear word jare!

K

I'm ready. Please open up MMA, ready to get back to my jet setting lifestyle.

Fuckingmallam45:
They are not saying anything about when schools will reopen.

Same thing I wonder o

NorthPrince:


You daft gan ooooo
of all the rules they listed
na dis one u con bring out

even for fvck's sake I don't see anything wrong in disinfecting shoes that carry viruses and paying for trolleys online to avoid social Interactions



you just like criticizing a lot
that you can't applaud them for this brilliant plan

you could still pass your message without the insult

be civil

Fuckingmallam45:
They are not saying anything about when schools will reopen.

I no want make school resume sef

They should open first and free us. All these are just the normal initial gra-gra, so it won't be said of them that they didn't make an attempt. Let's wait and see though.