{"id":141739,"date":"2024-12-08T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T08:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines"},"modified":"2024-12-08T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:39:37","slug":"flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines","title":{"rendered":"Flight delays: Nigerian Govt to sanction errant airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, says it will sanction errant airlines for delaying flights unnecessarily, urging aviation passengers to be more informed about their challenges while travelling via airports.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Consumer Protection, NCAA, Michael Achimugu, stated this on Saturday during a road walk in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this is the heavy travel season, adding that a lot of travelers need to be properly sensitized about the cause of delays and solutions to the problem<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re now in the high travel season in aviation and as you know there\u2019s been a lot of flight disruptions as well as a lot of complaints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur duty at NCAA is to sensitize our passengers because most of the time when complaints come about these disruptions, it comes from a place of poor knowledge about their rights and responsibilities as air passengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must protect both the passenger and the airline,\u201d Achimugu stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, says it will sanction errant airlines for delaying flights unnecessarily, urging aviation passengers to be more informed about their challenges while travelling via airports. Head of Consumer Protection, NCAA, Michael Achimugu, stated this on Saturday during a road walk in Port Harcourt, Rivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":141738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[14756,2903,254],"class_list":["post-141739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-airline","tag-flight","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flight delays: Nigerian Govt to sanction errant airlines - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, says it will sanction errant airlines for delaying ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flight delays: Nigerian Govt to sanction errant airlines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, says it will sanction errant airlines for delaying ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-08T08:36:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-08T09:39:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1733638140.61376.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"735\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Flight delays: Nigerian Govt to sanction errant airlines\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-08T08:36:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-08T09:39:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1733638140.61376.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"airline\",\"Flight\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/flight-delays-nigerian-govt-to-sanction-errant-airlines\",\"name\":\"Flight delays: Nigerian Govt to sanction errant airlines - 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