The Labour locked down of Abuja Airport and Imo State Airport, business owners around the airport and airlines, which cancelled their flights, recorded a huge loss worth over N500 million.
Passengers expressed disappointment, saying their schedules were disrupted by the disagreement between the labour and the Imo state government.
A passenger working with a federal government agency, Kolade Olakunle, said that his flight from Owerri to Lagos was cancelled. According to him, he was supposed to be in Lagos for a meeting but had to cancel the trip due to the NLC/Imo government face-off.
The spokesman of Dana Air, Kingsley Ezenwa, said the airline cancelled all its Owerri-bound flights yesterday, which amounted to a loss of over N45 million. According to him, the company has asked their passengers to reschedule their flights.
He said, “We cancelled both Abuja-Owerri and Lagos-Owerri flights today (yesterday). With these cancellations, we lost over N45 million. No one knows when it will end. We engage the passengers and gave them the opportunities to make their decisions on when to fly,” he said.
Air Peace airlines, on its own, cancelled four flights in and out of Owerri. They were Lagos and Abuja-bound flights.
