Passenger traffic falls 31% H1, says report

2,966 travellers’ luggage missing

Passenger traffic for the first half of the year dropped to 4.9 million, indicating some 30.9 per cent dip compared to the same period in 2016. Also, 2,7806 flights were operated both on the local and international scenes in Nigeria between January and June 2017. A document made available to Woleshadare.net also shows that international airlines and Nigerian carriers on the regional and intercontinental routes, contributed hugely to the delayed or missing luggage of 2,934passengers, while on the local scene, only 32 luggage were either missing or delayed on arrival.

At least, 2,966 of air travellers’ luggage in Nigeria were either missing or delayed on arrival in the first half of 2017.

According to the study from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), 24 airlines on both local and international routes out of 32 airlines were guilty of air travellers’ delayed or missing luggage in the first half of the year, while others such as Aero Contractors, Azman Air, Comair-Co, Max Air, Mid Africa, Saudi Air, Sudan Airways, had no issues with passengers’ luggage within the period.

Airlines that contributed to the delayed baggage were African World Airline, Air Cote D’Ivoire, Air France, Arik Air, Asky, British Airways, Cronos Air, Delta Air Lines, Egypt Air, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines and Etihad Airways.

Others are Kenya Airways, KLM, Lufthansa, Meridiana, Med-View, Middle East, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Rwandair, South African Airways, Turkish Air and Virgin Atlantic Airways.

The breakdown of the delayed or missing luggage were Kenya Airways with 27 missing luggage, KLM, 197; Lufthansa, 115, Med-View, 24; Qatar Airways, 129; Royal Air Maroc, 181. Others are Rwandair, 106; South African Airways, 382, Turkish Airways, 81 and Virgin Atlantic Airways had 118 delayed or missing luggage.

Also on the list are African World Airlines, 39; Air Cote D’Ivoire, 73, Air France, 145; Arik Air, 127; Asky Airlines, 63; British Airways, 259; Delta Air Lines, 193; Egypt Air, 45; Emirates, 88; Ethiopian Airlines 248 and Etihad Airways had 294 in the first half of the year.

However, the document revealed that some of the luggage were later found and delivered to the affected passengers while some are yet to be located.

On passenger traffic, the report revealed that so far, 4,941,138 passengers had been ferried to different locations within and outside the country between January and June this year.

The total number of passengers ferried so far by all the 32 airlines operating within and outside the country is however, a sharp contradiction to 7,100,000 passengers ferried within the period in 2016.

On the international scene, a total of 1,653,828 air travellers had either been brought in or ferried out of the country within the period under review, while 3, 287,310 passengers have been airlifted by local airlines within and outside the country.

The breakdown of international carriers’ passengers indicated that a total number of 790,619 passengers were inbound while 863,209 were outbound passengers.

Among the local airlines, 1,608,605 passengers were ferried as inbound, while another 1,678,705 of such passengers were outbound, thereby bringing to 3,287,301 passengers airlifted by the local airlines.

The breakdown of inbound and outbound passengers by airlines revealed that African World Airlines had 24, 100 as inbound and 25,364 as outbound passengers within the period under review. Air Cote D’Ivoire, 13,811 and 15,209; Air France, 53,837 and 58,469; Air Peace, 5,693 and 5,252; Arik Air, 15,112 and 18,656. Also Asky Airlines, 25,498 and 26,545; Azman Air, 665 and 957; British Airways, 68,425 and 65,282, Cronos Air, 1169 and 1826; Delta Air Lines 22,515 and 10,065. Also, Egypt Air, 32,564 and 37,657; Emirates, 53,515 and 60,066, Ethiopian Airlines, 83,779 and 92,425 and Etihad Airways, 18,699 and 20,697 inbound and outbound passengers respectively.

Others are Kenya Airways, 22,236 and 23, 593; KLM, 41,964 and 47, 509, Lufthansa, 54,609 and 61,695; Max Air, 1,985 and 2,483; Meridiana, 2733 and 3274; Med-View, 16,691 and 20,721, Middle East Airlines, 6592 and 67,31, Qatar Airways, 39,652 and 44,960, Royal Air Maroc, 15,992 and 19,530; Rwandair, 24,173 and 27,619, Saudi Air, 21,252 and 19,014; Sudan Airways, 1955 and 5364; South African Airways, 34,208 and 36,481; Turkish Airways, 45,119 and 55,425 and Virgin Atlantic Airways with 42,075 and 41,340 for inbound and outbound passengers respectively.

However, in the same period of 2016, passengers’ traffic was 7.08 million.

The report showed that the first quarter (January-March, 2016), domestic travels recorded 2.55 million passengers while international travels was 1.07 million passengers.

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