Emirates Airlines has disclosed plans to resume operations in Nigeria on October 1, two years after the airline suspended operations in the country due to their inability to repatriate $85 million in revenue trapped in the country.
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, had, on Wednesday, paid a working visit to the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Nigeria, Salem Saeed Al-Shamsii, where he was given a definite date for the commencement of flight operations by Emirates Airlines
Keyamo, on his official X handle, said: “Yesterday, I paid a working visit to the Ambassador of the UAE to Nigeria, His Excellency, Salem Saeed Al-Shamsi at the UAE Embassy in Abuja. He handed me a correspondence from the Emirates Airline indicating a definite date for their resumption of flights to Nigeria. That date will be formally announced by Emirates Airlines in a matter of days.”
Not too long after, the airline, on its Official X handle wrote: “We’re back, Nigeria! We will be resuming services to Lagos from October 1, 2024, and we can’t wait to offer unrivaled connectivity to Dubai and beyond to over 140 cities.”
Emirates’ Deputy President and Chief Commercial Officer, Adnan Kazim, in a statement, said: “The service will be operated using a Boeing 777-300ER.”
EK783 to depart Dubai at 0945hrs, arriving in Lagos at 1520hrs; the return flight EK784 will leave Lagos at 1730hrs and arrive in Dubai at 0510hrs the next day.”
