Breaking: Another airline, First Nation shuts down operations

First Nation Airline has closed its doors to further operations in Nigeria.

This is coming barely hours after Aero Contractors Airline shut down operations and suspended its staff indefinitely.

The Director-General of the NCAA, Capt. Muhtar Usman, explained that the decision was taken in order to ensure that the airline carried out the required maintenance of its aircraft.

Usman, however, refuted claims that some of the domestic airlines were winding down their operations regardless of the fact that they had suspended flight services.

In a statement issued by the NCAA on Thursday and signed by its DG, it said:

“The First Nation Airlines on its part is in the middle of an Engine Replacement Programme for one of its aircrafts. 

“Another aircraft is due for mandatory maintenance as allowed by the regulatory authority.

“In these circumstances, these airlines clearly cannot continue to undertake schedule operations, hence the inevitable recourse to self-regulatory suspension.”

Usman insisted that the domestic carriers had not wound down their operations.

Rather, according to him, they were “merely suspending their operations temporarily to enable them undertake certain operational overhaul and strengthen their overall operational outlay.”

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