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This is the ripple effect....
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Nigeria: Citizens On U.S.-Bound Flight Protest
Leadership (Abuja)
2 May 2008
Posted to the web 2 May 2008
Some US-bound Nigerian passengers yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, protested against their treatment by an American carrier, Delta Airline.
The chaotic situation took place at the airline's MMIA office as numerous passengers, booked on the airline's 11.45 am flight to the US, were suddenly dropped.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in protest, the passengers took over the airline's office even as no reason was offered for the airline's action.
It took the intervention of the police, the NCAA officials and some other senior officials of the airline to calm frayed nerves.
A supervisor at the airline's office, Mr Idrissa Bassoum, told newsmen that the incident arose because the passengers turned up late for check-in.
Bassoum said that the affected passengers had been re-booked for future flights. An affected passenger, Prince Leye Bodunde, told NAN that he had booked for the flight since March 30 and arrived three hours before departure time.
"It is bad to treat us this way," said Bodunde, who eventually booked for a future flight. Another passenger, Dr Babatunde Oke, who said he had been in the U.S. for 33 years, expressed regrets over the development .
He said the airline's action would affect a major engagement which he had in the US on May 1.
Oke's son, Tola, who was with him, said it was a horrible experience for him in Nigeria, coming home for the first time.
NAN reports that the action came as the federal government awaits a report from British Airways on its poor treatment of Nigerians. The government has repeatedly said that it would not accept shabby treatment of Nigerians by foreign carriers.
North American Airlines (NAA), the second U.S. carrier on the Lagos-US route, is winding up its operation in Nigeria in May, due to what it attributed to high fuel price. (NAN)
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