Sudan conflict: Nigerian airlines refuse to sign agreement to airlift hajj pilgrims | TheCable Hajj2023
on Thursday at the Hajj House in Abuja“The airlines will have to go through another route which from all indications is longer than passing through Sudan.
“We are hopeful that the Sudan conflict will abate and if it does, it means that we will go back to where we are.“We have planned our agreement prior to the Sudan crisis and we know that as we speak, there is a ceasefire in Sudan. “We will keep on working with the understanding that the ceasefire will work and the crisis will come to an end so pilgrims from all over the world will able to transit through Sudan to Saudi Arabia.”
Abdullahi Magaji-Hardawa, NAHCON’s commissioner of operations, said President Muhammadu Buhari had approved a waiver of 65 percent of all aviation-related charges on the Nigerian airlines approved to transport pilgrims to Saudi Arabia “Nobody canvassed for that but as an organisation, we made the suggestion to the president and he graciously approved it,” he said.“Now the challenges of crisis in Sudan is confronting us and it is threatening the success of hajj operations.
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