Following the spate of insecurity in the North Domestic airlines operating flights into Kano, Maiduguri, Yola and
other volatile cities in the North are currently carrying out safety and
security audits of their operations to determine whether they should
continue flying to these cities.
The latest security and safety audits, which started some days
ago, it was learnt, followed the bombing of a motor park in Kano on
Monday evening killing over seventy travellers as at the last count.
Currently, airlines that fly into the key northern cities are IRS, Aero-contractors, Arik, Chanchangi and Medview Airlines.
The Director of Flight Operations of one of the airlines flying
into the northern cities said the carrier had on Tuesday dispatched two
separate teams of officials from its safety and security departments to
Kano and other cities in the North to ascertain if the airline would
need to continue its flight operations into the volatile cities or not.
According to the official, domestic airlines had a year ago
carried out similar security and safety audits in the height of attacks
from the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Sources familiar with the situation said virtually all the
concerned airlines were already re-examining their operations into the
volatile northern cities.
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