FAAN Disobeys Court Order, Disrupts Arik Air’s Flight Operations Again

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Arik Air's Boeing 737-800NG. Photo credit: www.arikair.com
Nigeria’s largest airline; Arik Air has expressed displeasure over the disruption of her flight operations by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in violation of a court order and apologised to its esteemed passengers for any inconvenience experienced "due to the unwarranted disruption and unlawful action by FAAN". 

According to a statement from Arik Air ,both sides were reconciling payment accounts between the institutions over the charges paid by Arik Air to date and in this regard, Arik Air has been providing all the needed assistance and cooperation to conclude the reconciliation process.

It however accused FAAN of showing total disregard for the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by carrying out such disruptive action again.

Arik Air also disclosed that” In Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1558/2015 brought by FAAN against Arik Air before a Federal High Court in Lagos, the court on 20 June, 2016 had ordered that both parties maintain status quo ante-bellum until Ruling on the Ex-parte is delivered. The matter was further adjourned to 10 October, 2016".

The statement continued “On several occasions in the past weeks, Arik Air has equally served the order of the court to FAAN since they claimed ignorance of the ruling. Blatant defiance of the laws of the country and disrespect to the High Court should not be tolerated and we appeal to the judiciary to intervene in this matter and take appropriate action to uphold the laws of the nation.  This unjustifiable disruption by FAAN has further inconvenienced the travel plans of thousands of passengers who were already affected due to the acute scarcity of aviation fuel (Jet A1) in the recent weeks”.

The statement released by the airline also stated that FAAN has once again “disrupted its operations at the General Aviation Terminal and International Terminal of the, as
Workers of the agency prevented Arik Air from gaining access to the Airside of both terminals”

The airline stated that FAAN prevented her workers from accessing the air-sides of the both the domestic and the International terminals of the  Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos explaining that “Access to the Airside is critical and fundamental to the airline’s operations for moving catering, supplies and other sundry items to the aircraft, as well as the movement of its personnel to ready the aircraft for departure”.

It continued that “This access is also necessary for the airline to conduct secondary security screening, mandatory security checks and for securing the aircraft at all times in line with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards and recommended practice”

Arik Air added ‘’This is not the first time that FAAN has taken the law into its own hands as it had resorted to such strong-arm tactics against the airline in the past and most recently in May this year.

It is already in the public domain that Arik Air and FAAN have a lingering disagreement on the long-standing and unsubstantiated claim by FAAN of spurious indebtedness of the airline to the agency which is now before the Federal High Court in Lagos, at the instance of FAAN”

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