The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has asked aviation authorities and airline operators to start working towards the resumption of international flight as operations will begin in the coming weeks and not months.
The PTF National Coordinator, Sani Aliyu, disclosed this today at a briefing in Abuja.
Aliyu, however, noted that when the airspace commences international operations, passengers would arrive three hours before flights.
He said, “Specific to air transportation, as you are aware, domestic flights have already resumed, the railway sector has also restarted. For international travel, we have made recommendations to the aviation industry to commence the process for reopening international airports provided all existing international and local Covid-19 protocol are in place.
“We have modified the protocol for passenger arrivals at the airports. Domestic passengers arriving at the airports are advised to arrive one hour before their flights and three hours before international flights; when this restart.”
Aliyu added that though the government wants to reopen international operations soon, it will not compromise in its safety measures.
“There may be additional infrastructure for some of the airports. What we want to do and we’ve made it very clear at the PTF is that we want to resume as soon as possible but in a safe manner and do not put at risk all that we’ve done to control this pandemic. Hopefully in weeks but not months,” Aliyu said.
