Emirates Airlines has disclosed plans to resume operations in Nigeria on October 1, two years after the airline suspended operation into country due to their inability to repatriate $85million 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 the 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 of 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 the 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 press 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 arrives in Dubai at 0510hrs the next day. Tickets can be booked now on emirates.com or via travel agents.”
“We are excited to resume our services to Nigeria. The Lagos-Dubai service has traditionally been popular with customers in Nigeria and we hope to reconnect leisure and business travellers to Dubai and onwards to our network of over 140 destinations.”
