Breaking: FAAN Denies Releasing Guidelines For Flight Resumption

By Uche Mbah

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has denied the release of guidelines for international flights into and out of the country, calling on passengers and stakeholders to disregard any information to that effect that did not originate from them.

One Tayo Olu has Saturday released a statement which he claimed emanated from the authority indicating a release of post-Covid 19 guidelines for operations of flights within the 22 Airports in the country, particularly as it involves international flights.

In the wake of COVID 19 Pandemic, international flights were suspended except on special licenses and agreements, like, for example, when Air Peace had to fly to China to bring in equipment for the fight against Coronavirus.

But FAAN, in a release signed by its Chief image-maker, Henrietta Yakubu, disowned the statement saying that the guidelines are “work in progress”.

“The attention of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has been drawn to a statement released by a certain Tayo Olu today, May 16, 2020, to the effect that the Federal Government of Nigeria, through FAAN has released a post- COVID 19 travel guideline for air travelers”, the statement read.

“We want to state emphatically that although FAAN is carefully and seriously working on a guideline, the release did not emanate from us as it is still a work in progress.

“Consequently, the Authority will like to enjoin air travelers and the general public to disregard the content of the said release.

“At the appropriate time, FAAN will release the post-Covid 19 travel guidelines via our official communication medium.”