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COVID-19: Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices - Edoman - 06-23-2020 COVID-19: Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices  June 23, 2020 The Federal Government has confirmed that a simulation trial of domestic flights will be carried out at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos this Saturday. This is in preparation to reopen the country’s airspace to commercial flights. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, stated this on Monday at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. Sirika assured Nigerians that ticket prices would not skyrocket as speculated by many, due to the plan to implement the social distancing rule onboard. “We’ve been meeting with stakeholders in the industry to find out how best to open the industry. “So we are doing everything to ensure that tickets’ prices are not skyrocketed. They may be different but they will not be something that passengers cannot afford. “Flight trials will be demonstrated on Saturday in Lagos airport ahead of the resumption of operations,” he said. RE: COVID-19: Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices - Edoman - 06-23-2020 Fed Govt, airlines in talks over fare • Virgin to begin Lagos-London flight Aug 24 June 23, 2020 [/url] Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika [url=https://thenationonlineng.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hadi-Sirika.png] THE Federal Government  is in talks with airline operators and other stakeholders in the aviation industry to ensure that prices in air ticket do not skyrocket when flights commence. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika made this known following indications that air ticket might not be affordable for passengers when airport re-opens. He explained that the prices might be different from what passengers were used to, he, however, added that the prices will be affordable. Speaking on Monday during the briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sirika said: “Skyrocketing of flight ticket may not necessarily be the case because as I speak with you, day in day out, we have been meeting with stakeholders in the industry to find out how best to open up the industry in such a way that it does not bring hardship to the airline industry in general because definitely physical distancing will come into effect in the airport itself. “The happenings around airports certainly is putting people together and getting them to socially interact and do businesses and to create huge economic activity. So, we are coming up with measures to cushion the effect.’’ Virgin Atlantic Airways said yesterday it would resume flights on the Lagos/ London route effective August 24. According to the airline’s Manager, Marketing and Communications – Nigeria, Promise Ukandu, the new date will provide connections to a range of destinations in the United States. However, the airline said restart of flights into Lagos and other routes will be dependent on lifting of travel restrictions around the world. Chief Commercial Officer, Virgin Atlantic, Juha Jarvinen,  said: “As countries around the world begin to relax travel restrictions, we look forward to welcoming our customers back onboard and flying them safely to many destinations across our network. “From 20th July, we will resume services to New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, then from 1st August onwards, we will resume passenger flying to 17 additional destinations around the world, including Lagos, Tel Aviv, Atlanta, Mumbai and Las Vegas.’’ “However, we are monitoring external conditions extremely closely, in particular the travel restrictions many countries have in place including the 14 day quarantine policy for travellers entering the UK. “We know that as the Covid-19 crisis subsides, air travel will be a vital enabler of the UK’s economic recovery. Therefore, we are calling on UK Government to continually review its quarantine measures and instead look at a multi-layered approach of carefully targeted public health and screening measures, including air bridges, which will support a successful and safe restart of international air travel for passengers and businesses RE: COVID-19: Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices - Edoman - 06-23-2020 FG announces test run of Lagos airport Saturday ahead of resumption of flights By  Newsbulletin  - June 22, 2020 [/url]    [url=whatsapp://send?text=FG+announces+test+run+of+Lagos+airport+Saturday+ahead+of+resumption+of+flights%20-%20https%3A%2F%2Fnewsbulletinng.com%2Ffg-announces-test-run-of-lagos-airport-saturday-ahead-of-resumption-of-flights%2F] Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika The Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika says a test run is to be conducted at the Lagos airport to ascertain the level of preparedness of the airport for resumption of flights.  The dry run exercise according to the Minister would come up on  Saturday this week the 27 of June to see how things would look like at resumption. Announcing the the briefing in Abuja of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, the Minister, a lot of devices are coming up that would be introduced into the air transportation. One of them he said is the reverse chairs to face opposite and put a capsule over and above a passenger. “For example, knowing this guy is a droplet that must cough him and sneeze him and it drops on surface and when when you touch your face, it means you get it, then if that is the case then we are coming out with clean surfaces to disinfect and decontaminate them to heighten that within the aircraft itself within surfaces at the airport.” Share this: