Emirates Airways has resumed its Dubai-Lagos each day flights after a two-twelve months hiatus.
The flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) resumed flight operations to Nigeria on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
The airline’s flight landed at the Murtala Muhammad World Airport (MMIA) in Lagos on Tuesday afternoon as Nigerians beget a intellectual time 64 years of independence from British colonial rule.
The over eight-hour flight touched down at the airport at 3:32 pm, per air traffic controllers.
Emirates Airways suspended its Dubai-Lagos flights in November 2022 over its inability to repatriate trapped funds in Nigeria within the heat of the diplomatic fireworks between the 2 worldwide locations.
Nigeria and the UAE beget a long history of restriction of flights between both worldwide locations per particular unresolved factors surrounding the Bilateral Air Products and services Agreement (BASA). Visa restrictions later surfaced as diplomatic fireworks continued between Nigeria and the UAE, which is a high vacation set for Nigerian migrants and vacationers.
On the opposite hand, in September 2023, President Bola Tinubu met with UAE President, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi, to smoothen the tough edges within the diplomatic relatives between the 2 worldwide locations.
Therefore, in Would possibly perchance 2024, Emirates Airways acknowledged its each day Lagos-Dubai flights would resume from October 1, 2024. Two months later, the Federal Authorities of Nigeria reached an settlement with the UAE to allow Nigerian passport holders to make visas for commute to the Arab nation.
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