Nigerian airline operators halt planned shutdown

Domestic hose operators nether the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) person halted their planned nationwide shutdown, choosing alternatively to prosecute dialog pursuing authorities intervention.

The determination followed an exigency gathering of the association’s enactment connected Friday, wherever members considered an entreaty by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, urging restraint and engagement with stakeholders.

AON had earlier reveald plans to suspend operations from Monday, April 20, implicit the steep emergence successful the outgo of Jet A1 fuel, which they accidental has jumped from astir N900 to much than N3,000 per litre, placing important strain connected their operations.

In a communiqué issued aft the meeting, AON said it would temporarily shelve the enactment to let for discussions.

“The planned shutdown enactment scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2026, is hereby called off, albeit temporarily, pending the result of the gathering called by the Honourable Minister,” the relation stated.

The radical said the determination was taken successful bully religion to make country for negotiations, with a stakeholders’ gathering scheduled for Wednesday, April 22.

However, the operators warned that the suspension hinges connected improved conditions wrong the industry. They raised concerns astir what they described arsenic mounting operati...