Arik 3 aircraft faulty, unfit to fly as passengers protest delay

Arik 3 aircraft faulty, unfit to fly as passengers protest delay

Posted on August 13, 2018 Authornewsheadline247

Arik Air on Sunday left passengers on ground after three aircraft in the airline’s fleet developed technical problems and were grounded. The development led to confusion at the Port Harcourt airport yesterday when the airline could not airlift passengers scheduled to travel to Abuja because it could not to provide aircraft for the service. It

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Arik Air grounded as cabin crew down tools

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Arik Air grounded as cabin crew down tools
December 22, 2017

Hundreds of Arik Air passengers were stranded on Friday morning at various airports across the country following an unannounced strike by the cabin crew.

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Paradise Papers: Arik Air founder, Arumemi-Ikhide’s off shore world exposed!

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Paradise Papers: Arik Air founder, Arumemi-Ikhide’s offshore world exposed!
November 16, 2017

Says; “As a business person, we can have many offshore companies,”

Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide, the founder of Nigeria’s biggest commercial airline, Arik Air, is perhaps the country’s most prolific user of offshore entities. Mr Arumemi-Ikhide, alongside his wife, Mary, owns and maintains an intricate network of shell companies scattered across notorious tax havens, Premium Times can report.

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Arik air slams N20bn suit against Nigerian govt., Ethiopian Airlines in an impending legal battle

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Arik air slams N20bn suit against Nigerian govt., Ethiopian Airlines in an impending legal battle

September 10, 2017

Arik Air Limited has filled a N20 billion suit against the Federal Government and Ethiopian Airlines over recent claims in the media that they were negotiating the takeover of the airline.

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Arik suspends flights to London, Johannesburg

Arik has suspended its international flight operations to the London and Johannesburg routes.

The spokesman of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria,AMCON, Jude Nwauzor, made the announcement in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos.

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Arik passengers in chaotic scene at Lagos airport

PUNCH NG     Passengers, who were scheduled to travel out of the country with Arik Air on Tuesday but could not do so due to the strike action by aviation unions in solidarity with workers of the carrier, on Wednesday morning created an ugly scene at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos following the resumption of flight operations.

Airfares rise by 100 per cent as workers shut Arik

•Protesters demand seven-month unpaid wages
•Airline faults action, says meeting already scheduled

The plight of air passengers in the country worsened yesterday as Arik Air, the largest airline in West Africa, was shut down by protesting workers.

The workers, led by the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), among others, embarked on the industrial action in protest against alleged seven-month unpaid salaries and other anti-labour issues.

Dead stowaway discovered on Arik Air plane in South Africa

PHOTO: Arik Air

A dead body was found on Wednesday in the wheel well of a Nigerian plane after it landed in South Africa, the airline said in a statement.

The body was found on a plane operated by Arik Air, one of Nigeria’s largest airlines, that had departed from the country’s commercial hub of Lagos and landed at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport Tuesday evening.