Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has said airlines will start to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights by January 2024.

Keyamo said this at Tuesday’s Joint National Assembly Committee on Aviation where he defended his ministry’s budget for the 2024 fiscal year.

He gave assurance that a list of airlines that delayed or cancelled flights will be published in the media every week which is part of the compensation scheme.

He explained that the decision to publish the names of airlines that delay or cancel flights on a weekly was taken during their stakeholders meeting in Lagos and the retreat in Warri.

“I have called the customer’s satisfactory commission regarding the treatment of Nigerians. In fact, I have gone back to the committee, that is how much concern I am concerned,” Keyamo said.

Also as part of the compensation move, he proposed that a discount should be deducted from the flight tickets of airlines that delayed passengers as part of the compensation.

“For every delay, there is a report, an actual report by the regulator, what did they do? Did they pay compensation?”

“That passenger must be given a 50 per cent rebate or 40 per cent rebate because they must be a rebate.”

Keyamo stated that the best option to develop Nigerian airports is through concessions to investors.

“In concession, we will give the people what we want , not what they want. We have to decide what we want. It is the nature, the quality of the concession that all of us will agree on.”
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