Nigeria Aviation Minister & current issues (threads merged)
Here is a quote from todays guardian newspaper:
'A row over domestic route violation by Lufthansa, the German airline, has pitted Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, against that country’s ambassador, Joachim Christoph Schmillen.
The hiccup is over the airline’s Abuja-Port Harcourt; Port Harcourt-Lagos and Abuja-Lagos routes.
Fani-Kayode is insisting that it is illegal for Lufthansa to fly them as it has no licence to operate on domestic routes.'
Can anyone shed some light on this controversy? How is it possible that a foreign airline would run flight operations within a country without approval?