Arrest of Pilots: Airline Operators threaten boycott of flights to Rivers
This is as the Air Operators of Nigeria, AON, has threatened to stop all flight operations to Rivers State for three months.
Meggison, however, threatened that if the Rivers State Government failed to release the pilots within twenty-four hours, all Airlines in the country will be forced to boycott all schedule and unscheduled commercial and private flight operations, including oil and gas offshore flight services, into Port Harcourt for a period of three months.
“The AON also frowns at the crude action because the pilots were only doing their lawful duties which were also in line with President Muhammed Buhari’s Exemption Order of the Oil and Gas sector during the shutdown exercise.Aviation is under the Exclusivity List of the Federal Government and the Port Harcourt NAF Base is a Federal Government entity outside the jurisdiction of the Rivers State Government.
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