Arik Air resumes New York flight Thursday

Arik Air Wednesday said it has chartered a B767-300ER aircraft to minimise the disruption and inconveniences caused passengers on its Lagos-New York route. The airline also announced the resumption of flight to the American city from Thursday. The airline’s head of communications revealed that the chartered plane could not fly Tuesday due to the closure of Lagos airspace for several hours because of bad weather He said the airline decided to charter the aircraft following the damage to its A330-200 aircraft by a ground handling company at JFK International a few days ago. He noted that this arrangement was put in place to cover for the period until the return to service of its A330-200 aircraft Dec 28. <br/>
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12/29/16