{"id":26564,"date":"2020-06-23T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26564"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:48:33","slug":"nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has confirmed that a simulation trial of domestic flights will be carried out at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This is in preparation to reopen the country\u2019s airspace to commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, stated this on Monday at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Sirika assured Nigerians that ticket prices would not skyrocket as speculated by many, due to the plan to implement the social distancing rule onboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been meeting with stakeholders in the industry to find out how best to open the industry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>\u201cSo we are doing everything to ensure that tickets\u2019 prices are not skyrocketed. They may be different but they will not be something that passengers cannot afford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlight trials will be demonstrated on Saturday in Lagos airport ahead of the resumption of operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-14\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Federal Government has confirmed that a simulation trial of domestic flights will be carried out at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos this Saturday. This is in preparation to reopen the country\u2019s airspace to commercial flights. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, stated this on Monday at the daily briefing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":26567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,29],"tags":[1451,1001],"class_list":["post-26564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","tag-covid-19","tag-federal-government"],"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>Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Federal Government has confirmed that a simulation trial of domestic flights will be carried out at the Murtala Muhammed\" \/>\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\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Federal Government has confirmed that a simulation trial of domestic flights will be carried out at the Murtala Muhammed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-23T16:48:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Airports-1024x576-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-23T16:48:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices\"},\"wordCount\":161,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Airports-1024x576-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19.\",\"Federal Government\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-govt-gives-update-on-airport-reopening-increase-in-ticket-prices\",\"name\":\"Nigerian govt gives update on airport reopening, increase in ticket prices - 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