Following fears over the growing cases of the coronavirus in Nigeria, Air Peace, Arik Air, Dana Air, Azman and Max Air say they will be suspending all their domestic flight services.
The move, they say, is part of efforts to curtail the spread of the virus.
The suspension will become effective from midnight, March 27, for Air Peace, Arik Air and Azman.
However, Max Air will commence the suspension on March 28 while Dana Air would begin its from midnight of March 25.
Aero Contractors had on Tuesday said its flight services would be suspended from the midnight of Thursday.
Spokesman for Dana Air, Kingsley Ezenwa, said the airline’s suspension would be for two weeks.
Chief Operating Officer of Air Peace, Toyin Olajide, said the airline’s flight operations would be suspended for 23 days.
“This difficult decision was reached in order to, not only, support the efforts of the Federal Government and other stakeholders in curbing the spread of this virus in our nation but also to protect our teeming passengers and our staff from becoming victims of the pandemic,” she said.
“Continuation of flight operations in the present circumstances we find ourselves as airlines could lead to the total collapse of any airline hence the need to quickly stem the rising financial burden and cost of operations.”
According to her, normal scheduled flight operations would resume on April 20.
Olajide said the airline would be willing to operate special flights both for the government and the people.
Chief Executive Officer of Arik Air, Roy Ilegbodu, also said the airline would be available to support government emergency, humanitarian and charter flight requests during the period of suspension of air transport operation.
