Max Air explains challenges, resumes P/Hacourt, Sokoto flights
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The Management of Max Air Limited, says the airline recently down
scaled its operations to meet the demands of its passengers in line with
the Civil Aviation Regulations (CARs).
Mr Kehinde Ogunyale, Abuja Airport Station Manager of the airline,
revealed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
Monday in Abuja.
Ogunyale said that Max Air had operated with a single aircraft due to
mandatory maintenance checks, adding that one was undergoing mandatory
checks at Aero Hangar in Lagos and another on C-checks.
He said that the airline reduced its operations from seven to five
destinations by excluding Port Harcourt and Sokoto routes as well as
reduce frequencies to Lagos and Kano while combining operations to Yola
and Maiduguri.
The manager said that the aircraft on mandatory checks at Aero had
been recertified by the regulatory authority to resume flight on Monday.
“We were doing a one aircraft operations due to mandatory maintenance checks on our aircraft while another is on C-checks.
“During this period we reduced our destinations from seven to five
because we stopped flying to Sokoto and Port Harcourt and we were not
selling tickets for those destinations.
“Max Air operated four sectors through a partner airline in order to reduce the pressure on that particular day.
“Our passengers were briefed, we did some rescue operation with a partner airline.
“The aircraft has been re-certified and released to service and we are back to full operations from Monday May 27,” he said
On allegation that the airline’s passengers were stranded for several
hours, Ogunyale said that at no time were their passengers stranded on
account of the airline.
According to him, the challenges with delays were not caused by the
situation but due to weather conditions with approaching rainy season
and also a few times to VIP movements.
“There was a particular flight that passengers were sitting on the
aircraft for close to two hours and I also remember three different
times that we had to come back to base due to weather conditions.
“One to Kano, we couldn’t land because of weather and we had to come
back here and wait for weather to improve and while we were waiting for
kano weather to improve, the weather caught up with us in Abuja and we
had to wait for another one hour 30 minutes.
“So there were things that we didn’t have control over like the weather issue and VIP movements.
“Max Air is currently using it’s 747 fleet for Umrah operations and
has lifted almost 8000 passengers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“We have had to delay some of the flights because of passengers
showing up late and at no time were passengers stranded or left behind,”
he said.
Max Air was named as the first of the three domestic airlines with
highest on time performance record by the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA) in the first quarter of 2019.
The Consumer Protection Unit of NCAA named Max Air, Overland and
Azman Air as airlines that recorded lowest figures in terms of flight
delays and cancellations.
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