{"id":1196185,"date":"2022-09-01T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/emirates-suspends-nigeria-flights-for-10-days\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T08:55:25","slug":"emirates-suspends-nigeria-flights-for-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/emirates-suspends-nigeria-flights-for-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Suspends Nigeria Flights For 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Emirates has from Thursday suspended flights to and from Nigeria for 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubai-based airline says it has not been able to repatriate funds from the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>The last Emirates flight left Lagos at 20:00 local time on Wednesday. The airline says affected passengers can make alternative travel arrangements or cancel their plans.<\/p>\n<p>Before the suspension, the airline had reduced its flights in Nigeria from 11 to seven per week.<\/p>\n<p>It had earlier indicated it would stop flights from 1 September \u201cto limit further losses and impact on our operation cost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government owes them $85m ($73m) it made from ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria released $265 million to airlines operating in the country to prevent a crisis in the aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage of the dollar has made it difficult for the bank to settle the debt.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways too, has reduced its flights over failure to recover funds.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s Delta Airlines says it will from 4 October suspend flights from New York to Lagos due to low demand.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates has from Thursday suspended flights to and from Nigeria for 10 days. The Dubai-based airline says it has not been able to repatriate funds from the West African country. The last Emirates flight left Lagos at 20:00 local time on Wednesday. The airline says affected passengers can make alternative travel arrangements or cancel their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1475,1605,1606,633,259],"class_list":["post-1196185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-days","tag-emirates","tag-flights","tag-nigeria","tag-suspends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}