So there is a threat to charge BA similar amounts for slots at Lagos as Arik is charged at LHR. This is similar to trying to charge the same for gold coloured tinfoil as is charged for a real gold bar!! For those who have trouble identifying which is which in the analogy above I will give you a clue, the gold bar airport with all the operational and commercial facilities for its passengers is not Murtallah Mohammed.
DRPAM007 your conspiracy theories are hopelessly off the mark. No one forces the Naija people to travel on the foreign airlines when there is a Nigerian airline also on the route, but they do so out of preference and they do so by their thousands. The British Government does not run BA, it was privatised many many years ago.
The most stupid part of the dear Princesses summation is that Nigerian passengers should choose carefully by price. They already do, and they judge it is worth paying the higher fares of the European airlines than to fly on a Nigerian carrier. If the Nigerian people only wanted the low fares then they would be filling Arik and leaving BA with spare capacity, yet Arik flies with low loads.
The Nigerian Government is not fighting with a strong hand of cards. If it kicks BA off the route the passengers will route via Paris, Amsterdam or Frankfurt.
The Princess also mentions that Arik has bought slots for its Abuja to LHR service at commercial rates.......................... so what is the fight about they now know how to get slots!!