Amid scarcity of aviation fuel also known as Jet A1, stakeholders have asked the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), to improve passenger facilitation processes at airports across the country.
In a chat with me, the secretary general, Aviation Round Table Initiative (ARTI), Capt. John Ojikutu (rtd), said fuel scarcity and weather report cannot be the only reasons why flights are being cancelled.
According to him, technical issues such as insufficient boarding gates and screening checkpoints to process passengers before boarding, especially when, more than one flight are departing almost within an hour can be reasons.
He said, “Technical hitches can be reasons for flight cancellations and delays. However, you must come out to show what these hitches are. These days you hear of fuel scarcity or high costs of fuel. My take on this is that there is more of high cost of fuel than scarcity, so long as the foreign airlines are not complaining.
