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Arik resumes flight to South Africa

Arik had suspended flights to the country in anger

Arik resumes flight to South Africa

March 3, 2012
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Nigeria’s Arik Air is resuming flight operations between Johannesburg, South Africa beginning with tonight’s scheduled service departing from Lagos, the company said in a statement Saturday.

Arik suspended its flight to South Africa following a dispute with that country’s Port Health Authorities over Yellow Fever documentation being presented to authorities at OR Tambo by Nigerian and West African passengers, many of whom were being detained and had been refused entry in to the country in recent months.

Over hundred passengers on the airline were refused entry into the country after arriving Johannesburg.

“Arik Air has taken the decision to re-commence with operations over the weekend to protect its passengers in the interim period until the matter is resolved,” the statement said.

“However, any passenger’s travelling between Nigeria and South Africa will be screened by Arik Air personnel prior to acceptance on the flight at Murtala Muhammed Airport.

“Those passengers that have a NEW Yellow Fever vaccination card issued in Nigeria and who have not used that card previously (that is are travelling to South Africa for the first time) will be denied boarding on today’s (3rd March) and tomorrow’s (4th March) Lagos-Johannesburg outbound flight until the matter is resolved at government level where a meeting has been set for Monday 5th March to discuss the new procedural guidelines for passengers originating from the West African region and the presentation of Yellow Fever immunisation documentation.”

Commenting on the reinstatement Arik’s Group CEO, Arumemi-Ikhide,  said, “Whilst we are not satisfied with the continued, protracted state of affairs regarding this this policy, we cannot allow our passengers to suffer the inconvenience of cancelled flights over the weekend.

“The respective governments have agreed to meet on Monday morning (5th March) to discuss this situation and we hope there will be a resolution so we can put this unfortunate mess behind us and get back to business as normal.

There are no assurances on what the policy will be but Arik will make a definitive decision on flight operations between Nigeria and South Africa after this meeting.

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“Unfortunately there will still be a number of passengers affected on tonight and tomorrow’s flight but we are going to proceed with flights and are contacting and informing as many of those potentially affected passengers about the situation and offering the opportunity to rebook at a time once the matter has been agreeable resolved.”? 

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