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Thanks. Funny enough I was thinking about getting a resprayed done but never got round to doing that. I'll get back to you Lagusta on the speed. And mileage of course.

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That was an experience of a friend of mine btw

chiteny:
Majority update so far with Arik have been unpleasant from fliers. I wonder when they will change. The exact same scenario has played out many number of times after my experience

My advice, dont use arik. If you have to, take your suitcase with you and be ready for awful customer service. You can use aero or dana or any other.

ARIKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear friends. I am sure you all must be having a good day. I however am not. I am sooooo upset! Soooooo upset. Now just one word! ARIK! For the second time Arik has decided to frustrate me and it is so irritating. Oh what am I saying; well I guess considering the case, it is the second time. All other times that they make us sit at the airport for hours, I won't count. I am one of those people that would use a rugged bag for trips within Africa because of the notorious way that our airlines have been known to handle our bags! On this occasion, because I had planned to take it on the plane with me, I decided to take a new one I'd just bought myself as a birthday present as my one and only business travel bag. Little did I know that the launching would be cut short by Arik o! So I was taking a flight to Accra. Flight W3304 specifically A one hour flight. I tried as much as possible to travel really light in this case because of an experience I'd once had but then on the way to the airport, I remembered I had fluids. So sadly, I realized I'd have to check it in. I remember looking around the airport to see if by some miracle we would have some bag wrapper to protect my suitcase. Nothing! Not surprising! So I went to the counter to check in my bag and I asked the guy if he felt it would be wise to check it in. There were no valuables in my suitcase but I just had a really funny feeling about checking in my bag. Anyway after pondering so much, I did it! I decided to trust arik with my suitcase. We boarded the flight and I got to Ghana safely. For once the flight was early. Thank God.
But the most annoying bit are the pictures below. My suitcase was mishandled by whomever. The tyre was broken. Fine, I was like anyway, its Arik. But then you can now imagine my shock when I saw that the zipper was broken. HA! I opened it and saw that my perfume wasn't in the former place I'd kept it in the small zipper section. Hmmm mmm. So the bag was obviously opened. Then guess what! One of my purses was actually broken loose. The person must have thought there was money in it and was obviously in a hurry to open it. That was a brand new purse that I had not even used before! Of course there was nothing to take. Thankfully I was careful enough not to put in any valuables. Now remember I had said I'd had a bad experience previously. I still blame myself because I was careless. I was going to The Gambia and I'd checked in my camera. I got to my hotel room and my camera was gone! Lolll! Woo I checked funny places for that camera o. I'd spent no less than 350euros on it. And I remember specifically because at the time, it was my last. And you know what! I wasn't the only person who had complained about losing something on that trip! Now tell me what you make of this. You can just imagine how this just ruined my whole trip. When I buy things I put a lot of thought to it. Its bad enough that the customer service on arik is just nasty. But this! This is an obvious case of theft and not damaged goods/baggage! I did report it funny enough when I got to Accra. But you know what the man would tell me smile emoticon his name is Quay or something and he says he's sorry but they can't pay more than 100euros or 200euros for my suitcase. Thing is it’s not about the money. Its just the complete disregard that people tend to have for their customers. I have seen the way these people throw our bags at the airport not caring what is in it. I have sent emails to their customer care, no response. No phone number on the website to call and whoever updates the facebook page is obviously NOT doing a good job because I have sent a mail to that as well. And it has been waaaay over 24 hours. They now have some loyalty program called AFFINITY WINGS that they’ve been marketing to retain their customers. I am sure that if they enroll us today, by next year, those points would probably not exist anymore. Why would I want to use ARIK when I know that there is a huge possibility that they’d steal from me? Those of you that even use them for international flights. Woo! You have mind o! I am a strong believer that my own country has hope, but my dears do you want to say that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has made this sort of complaint before? My camera was stolen over a year ago. Between that time and now, someone must have made a complaint.
This is just so upsetting! Why can't i feel safe in my own country or an airline from my own nation? How long will this continue to go on? Their flights are the most expensive within West Africa and this is what i get in return for patronage? For someone like me who uses no other airline within West Africa, we can be sure that they get no less than 8 flights per year from the average Nigerian. Who knows! And i hear the other airlines are good anyway.
Please, please and please, help me spread this. This is just so wrong!