Akwa Ibom govt raises alarm over hike in aviation fuel

Akwa Ibom State owned airline, Ibom Airlines Limited has raised alarm implicit the skyrocketing terms of aviation substance successful Nigeria dissimilar successful different climes.

It urged Nigerian substance marketers to reconsider the pricing of aviation substance to marque the hose concern exemplary proceed to enactment successful the country.

Group Manager, Marketing and Communication of Ibom Airlines, Aniekan Essienette who noted this successful a connection successful Uyo connected Monday said if the terms continues to exacerbate, they’ll person nary enactment than to trim the fig of flights successful operation.

Reiterating the unbearable outgo of fueling their aircraft, Essienette said, “From an mean of N2.1m per formation successful January, arsenic astatine today, the 27th of April, we are paying astir N7.6m to substance each flight. This is simply a much than 350% summation since the opening of March, a abstraction of conscionable 7 weeks!”

She explained that home airlines are successful awe wherefore the terms of aviation substance successful Nigeria is mode supra the remainder of the world, portion the substance marketers get 95% oregon much of their aviation substance from Dangote Refinery.

The Spokesperson said based connected the duplicate origin of patriotism and competitory pressure, Ibom Air, has refused to summation the terms of its fares, adding that the institution arsenic good arsenic different home airlines...