Air Peace Airline had disclosed that it has lost over N3 billion to the recent winglet incident involving two of its aircraft at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammad Airport, Lagos.
The Chairman of the Airline, Mr Allen Onyema, while briefing the press yesterday at his office in Ikeja, Lagos, said that the Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL) at the same period used their equipment to run into its Benin-Abuja bound aircraft at the Benin Airport, rendering the aircraft unserviceable also.
He lamented that with this, the Airline lost three aircraft within 24 hours leading to flight delays.
He apologised to its teeming customers for the inconveniences in their travel schedule.
“We apologise and inform our teeming customers that their darling airline is having a challenge. We want the media to educate them; no airline loses three aircraft in 24 hours and continues to operate.
“Last week Thursday, on April 20, we had a winglet incident making those two aircraft unserviceable. We don’t want to play with safety so we are waiting for Boeing to come and fix it.
“These two aircraft implied 14 flights cancelled and we had to rearrange immediately and that led to a delay.
“But the social media misrepresented the incident in their report, saying that about 200 passengers escaped death. There was no single passenger in those aircraft and it was not a collision.
“The following day, SAHCOL used its equipment to run into our aircraft in Benin Airport and this aircraft does seven to eight flights. So we had to manage to fix the problem of about 24 flights in less than 24 hours.
“We appeal to our passengers that this problem has not come to stay as we are working on it. We are sorry, we at Air Peace we are saying we are sorry. It’s not in our style to bring them discomfort,” Onyema said.
However, he condemned the violent action of some passengers who were very unruly doing things he said are not done in neighbouring countries. “They destroyed our equipment, beat up our staff and stripped them naked. We need the government to protect airlines on this, airline staffers are people’s spouses and siblings,” he stressed.
According to Onyema, the airline has already lost 240 flights and the loss of the three aircraft has cost Air Peace over N3 billion, stressing that to fix the wingless aircraft alone will cost $650,000 by AG Waters of London.
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
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