Any passenger who sneezes onboard will be treated as COVID-19 case, says Aero contractor boss

Ado Sanusi, the chief executive officer of Aero Contractors, has advised intending passengers who have a cold or malaria not to come to the airport.

Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels TV on Thursday, Sanusi said passengers who are seen sneezing on the aeroplane will be isolated and treated as potential COVID-19 patients.

“I will like to point out that if you have malaria or a common cold, do not come to the airport because there is a high possibility that you are going to be denied boarding,” he said.

“This is the new normal that we are going to see.

“The main thing for the airlines is to make sure that the aeroplanes are safe and that is what we’re doing and that’s why we still believe that air transportation is the safest way to travel.

“So if we see anybody sneezing, we will take him as an index passenger, we are not going to he/she has allergies. We are going to take the person as index passenger till we have handed them over to port health officials. They will be the ones to determine if he is allergic or has COVID-19.”

Sanusi said the airline has made arrangements to isolate suspected cases to ensure the safety of all passengers.

Speaking further, he said passengers who present a doctor’s report stating that they have malaria will not be allowed to board the aeroplane.

“My airline will not allow a passenger that comes with a doctor’s report saying he has malaria I would rather that he comes with a COVID-19 test result that he is free which is only valid for four days,” he said.

“If you have malaria, please sit at home and when you get better, you can travel.”

Addressing speculations that middle seats would be left empty, Sanusi said the airline would only take a decision based on data-driven and backed by science.

“If we have data that shows that if we block the centre seats, it will reduce the rate of transmission then we will do that and increase the flight costs because somebody must pay for the centre seats.,” he explained.

The airline boss also said the airline would no longer serve in-flight meals as passengers would have to remove their face masks to eat such.

“There won’t be serving of food because that will increase the number of times you will be contacting passengers and then the passengers would be removing their face masks to eat the food so I think it is not the best,” he explained.

“It is a one hour flight. It is only in Nigeria that we serve food for a one-hour flight. Go anywhere in the world and you will see that hot meals are not served on one-hour flights.”

Hadi Sirika, the minister for aviation, announced on Wednesday that domestic flight operations will resume at the Lagos and Abuja airports on July 8.

https://www.thecable.ng/aero-contractors-passengers-with-malaria-common-cold-may-not-be-allowed-onboard

lol

An aeroplane is like a casket. there is no natural oxygen, the one you breathe is the one supplied by the plane.

any covid patient that sneezes will be a general distributor

Na to hold your sneeze sure pass

So someone cannot come and go and sneeze in peace again

yfgo

If some1 wud caught or sneeze in the middle of the flight, wud dey turn back or isolate the person on board, really funny.... Naija

Someone can not sneeze on air again

That's why I like my God is Good Motors. Always friendly, they don't give me this wahala.


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Another Way To Denny People Their Right To Travel.
If So Anything Fragnant, Like Perfumes Should Be Bann Too, Because Some People Have ' Sent' Phobia,

Kriss216:
Someone can not sneeze on air again

That's why I like my God is Good Motors. Always friendly, they don't give me this wahala.


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Unfortunately, GIG motors can't take you to the US

Righteousness89:
Covid-19 has Changed the World!

No one really knows what next is coming in terms of movement , travels and all that..

Preach, preacher!

*Sips Henny*

Mehn...

What a shame! What about people who are prone to dust and it’s likes?

Sometimes, these people think like goats!

Lmao. What is this?

Some kind sneeze dey wen e hold you ehn you can’t just help it
If una no fit give them food onboard, some of us no mind take away na abi if we don reach our destination we go dey chop am there!
Very anyhow reason from Aero contractors

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I can imagine someone trying to hold back the thing and then eventually exploding with a thunderous one just before the plane lands. Lol

Tori kini .. Ama se nkan o

Hope you'll refund their ticket money too?

Transport companies should follow the same rules too.

Nawa oo Wahala dey ooo time for 1 day journey to enter 14 days quarantine no be me and you.

WHO just release a statement saying asymptomatic people do not transmit the disease.

Na wa ooo

Lol �. Dem dey mad.

Lol... Operation hold your sneeze...

Honestly, some Nigerian mentality about the COVID-19 of a thing is very shallow, so sneezing now means you have COVID-19?

What of if at the end of the day, you carried out a test and the suupose person and it comes out negative you will still isolate the person?

No wonder we hear of 790 COVID-19 patients in a day not knowing the you only add people who exhibit only malaria and headaches as COVID-19 patient just to request for fund and loot them.


God help us in this country