₦airaland Forum

blackpanda:
Mtschhew. Useless wailers can never see anything good in the country. While u are there lamenting over ur laziness, people are getting married, building houses, anambra just attained rice self-sufficiency, but all y'all can do is nag complain and throw insults.

Rubbish!

kodded:
even foreigners know that buhari and lies are like 5 & 6

omamush:
I've been weeping for Nigeria since June 2015..

pressplay411:
I respect that we can't all share the same views but in all arguments objectivity is key.
Denying that there's a problem in the Aviation and other sectors makes you look ignorant.

I like Buhari but frankly no be the change him promise us be this.

So let's voice out our grievance at the ineptitude and incompetence of this present administration in order to spur him to action, fire incompetent hands and hire capable hands. Only when he performs better can we celebrate his achievement.

drnoel:
Are u really that dogged or is it just ur stubborness to admit you guys made a mistake? It doesn't help to stay transfixed in failure while people suffer and die. Nigeria under GEJ was pretty hard but people where able to feed and survive. Under that dullard this is the second time the country is seeing recession again, the first was also in Buhari's era. Call a spade a spade and forget sentiments. Afterall we all want things better for our people right? Buhari is a failure say it and be free.

holluwai:
Abi, we wan chop eba but no garri. Lol

omamush:
I've been weeping for Nigeria since June 2015..

YouthsPC0:
For the unrepentant Buharist and paid hailers this man is a wailer possibly an IPOB member.

It is sad that after 2 years of change those who should ordinarily tell Buhari the truth are those sycophantically destroying him, sadly it has gotten to a point where non Nigerians have taken up wailing on our behalf , the last time it was the Germans who were wondering which planet Buhari was invited from.

According to their promise of 3,000,000 jobs annually 6 millions jobs should have been created but we have lost over 7.4 million in 1.5 years and counting.

Foreign airlines are vanishing local airlines have crumbled yet the FG is talking about a hub, apart from the Helipad in Daura Buhari has not commissioned any project of his own in two years, the Benue state Governor will claim that he is better at least he commissioned a mini signboard recently.

May God help us to tell our leaders the truth.

tweet from John Ashbourne https://twitter.com/JohnAshbourne/status/790498762208731136

Rossikk:
No you haven't. You don't love Nigeria enough to weep for her. Same as every other person like you who has lied about ''weeping for Nigeria''.

blackpanda:
You cannot understand because u are single. Come back wen u are matured enough

Bluehawk:
its not an achievement.. I thing the poster that wanted to fight you should have his way

Trapnews:
The OP is a disappointment. Full blooded Nigerians don't take such handles serious... could be a flat head, an Afonja or a Daura man behind it, who cares?

blackpanda:
Lol. U normal so??

sirtcephace:
Buhari is a cause curse to Nigerian,


agreed or not.

Mujaheeeden:
Getting Married is now an Achievement
I need to know the school that issued you a certificate

Orikinla:
The OP really needs to go back to school.
The major foreign airlines are happy with millions of Nigerians still flying on their planes.
Air France is so happy that the airline spent millions to cosponsor the film production of Kunle Afolayan's hit movie CEO.
I was at Afrinolly Space with one of executives of Air France, a Branch Manager of Wema Bank Plc and Kunle Afolayan when we met with Mark Zuckerberg, the Cofounder and CEO of Facebook on August 31 and the economic projections for Nigeria in the next five years are awesome as recently confirmed by the IMF.

Nigeria produced the best movies since President Muhammadu Buhari became the Head of State and Netflix and IMAX are now in Nigeria for the first time.

If you have nothing worthy to contribute to the nation building of a New Nigeria, shut up or get lost..

Ignorant and stupid people should shut up!

Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has appealed to foreign airlines operating in Nigeria who are in the process of downgrading or suspending their operations to reconsider their plans and decisions.

According to the minister, the challenges currently besetting the industry and other sectors would soon become a thing of the past.

The Minister who said these when he received the West African Regional Manager for Emirates Airlines, Manoj Gopi Nair in his office, urged the airline operators to consider the adverse effects the decision will have on their long-standing costumers and the benefits they had.

According to him; "Government was not unaware of the issues that have created operational difficulties for both domestic and foreign airlines, such as Foreign Exchange, Aviation fuel and infrastructural deficiencies, the government has been up and doing to ensure the creation of an environment that is both enabling and profitable for you to operate".

He also promised to immediately take up the Emirates complaints about Foreign Exchange with the relevant authorities, stressing that the aviation fuel situation has almost normalized as a result of government intervention that has made it easier for importers to bring in the product.

Speaking on infrastructural deficiencies, especially the runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the Minister said while the government was already handling the issue, the long-term solution remained in the concession of the major airports for which government had already commenced the process.

Earlier, the West Africa Regional Manager of Emirates, Manoj Gopi Nair said that meeting was to brief the Minister on the decision of the Emirates Management to scale down its operations in Nigeria, with the suspension of operations from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

This decision he said, was based on the airline’s inability to make ends meet in view of the difficulties in accessing Foreign Exchange for its operations, high cost of aviation fuel and the state of the Abuja Airport.

He however promised to transmit the Aviation Minister’s appeal and official commitment to address the issues to the Emirates Management for a possible reconsideration of the decision http://persecondnews.com/index.php/psn-news/item/6999-please-don-t-leave-nigeria-aviation-minister-begs-foreign-airlines-not-to-lose-faith-in-economy
http://thenationonlineng.net/fg-begs-foreign-airlines-planned-withdrawal-operation/

14 airlines close shop in Nigeria amid forex hike by By Wole Oyebade | 08 August 2016 | 4:22 am - The Guardian Newspapers

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No fewer than 14 airlines have withdrawn their services from the country due to low patronage on account of the economic recession.

The airlines, including Iberia, United Airlines and Air Gambia, are among the 50 that operated the Nigerian routes some months ago.

Besides, foreign airlines operating in the country are estimated to have lost about N64 billion in the wake of the new foreign exchange (forex) policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). President of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Bankole Bernard, said that the new forex policy and economic crunch came with enormous negative effect on travel agencies, the reason for which they exited the country.
Bernard had, at the Aviation Round Table (ART) breakfast meeting held in Lagos recently, said that travel agencies that sold about $1.4 billion worth of air tickets in 2015 were beginning to record losses with the departure of the airlines, adding that there was fear that more airlines might quit flying the Nigerian routes.

Apparently frustrated by the low patronage, he said that some of his members were beginning to consider relocating to Ghana, where “their policies are consistent.”

Bernard said that the alleged inconsistent policy of the current administration, particularly on the naira devaluation, accounted for the current “nightmarish” experience the airlines are facing.

The loss of N64b by the foreign airlines was on account of repatriating $800 million stuck in the economy in the last one year, but released after the recent devaluation of the naira.

With the devaluation, the accumulated $800million from airlines’ sales of tickets when the exchange rate was still at N197 to $1, was taken out of the country at the new rate of N320 to $1. Consequently, a substantial amount was lost in the last couple of weeks.

Confirming the development, the Regional Manager of British Airways, Kola Olayinka, said that for every $1m repatriated since the new policy began, the airlines lose not less than N80 million.

Olayinka blamed the situation on what he called the immediate and unfortunate effect of the new policy, which is affecting all foreign airlines that had funds sitting in the Nigerian banks.

The current administration last year introduced a fiscal policy through the CBN, restricting access to foreign exchange and funds transfer out of the country. In the process, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimated that no less than $600 million belonging to foreign airlines was stranded in Nigeria. The association appealed to government to ensure the immediate release of such funds.

Aviation sources estimate that Delta and United Airlines have up to $180 million hanging in the Nigerian economy, while Air France-KLM is estimated to have over $150 million. British Airways has about $100 million as at March 2016, while Iberia, which had already withdrawn its services, has $5 million of its funds trapped.

Olayinka expressed regret that the effects of the new policy are quite unfortunate, but a price to be paid for “the economic realignment”.

ART President, Gbenga Olowo, noted that some airlines lost up to 50 per cent of their funds due to the forex policy.

Olowo, however, stressed that the foreign airlines remained a major stakeholder in the aviation industry, citing that they account for about 90 per cent of the air passenger traffic in the country.

He said even if the foreign airlines continued to leave, it would still not be to the advantage of local carriers like Arik and Medview, since their fleet capacity is too low to accommodate the traffic.

Olowo appealed to government to be consistent in its policy and ensure that operators have an enabling environment. http://guardian.ng/news/14-airlines-close-shop-in-nigeria-amid-forex-hike/