Nigeria Resumes International Flights August 29

 

International flights to Nigeria and out of the country will resume fully on August 29, 2020.

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has announced.

Announcing the resumption on Monday in a tweet from his Twitter handle @hadisirika, the minister said international flight operations would begin at the Lagos and Abuja Airports.

He said protocols and procedures for flight resumption would be announced in due course.

International flight operations were suspended by the Federal Government in March as part of the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.

A full text in the tweet reads; “Glad to announce the resumption of international flights from the 29th of August, 2020. Beginning with Lagos and Abuja as we did with the domestic flight resumption. Protocols and procedures will be announced in due course. We thank you for your patience”.

Meanwhile, the Asaba Airport on Monday recorded its first flight, four days after it was reopened by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, for meeting the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control protocols on COVID-19 pandemic. The Aviation ministry have been opening airports in the country in phases since total lockdown was suspended