Dana Air to deploy more flights over nationwide shortage
Dana Air has concluded its recertification exercise conducted by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), and has assured its guests of additional flights to ease the pain of travellers who have had to bear the high cost of tickets as a result of flight shortage across the country.
The airline also revealed its plan to acquire more aircraft in the coming year as part of its strategic route and fleet expansion program and its desire to continually provide its teeming customers with the best in terms of in-flight service, on-time performance and customercentric products.
The airline’s Media and Communications Manager, Kingsley Ezenwa, told newsmen in Lagos yesterday that the recertification was a routine review carried out by the NCAA.
He said, “we have finally concluded our re-certification exercise with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
“Re-certification in Nigeria’s aviation industry is a standard practice conducted every two years by the NCAA and during the period, an airline’s operation is totally reviewed from ground handling to quality assurance and particularly safety standards and we are glad to have scaled this rigorous process.”
The Dana Air spokesman while thanking the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority for carrying out a thorough check on its operations before re-certifying the airline decried a negative report by an online platform during the course of the re-certification, describing it as unnecessary.
He said, “we wish to commend the NCAA for doing a thorough job and for giving us a clean bill of health which on its own reassures our guests that our 10 years experience in Nigeria’s airspace is no fluke. We are however worried about some orchestrated and baseless stories that were circulated while the exercise lasted. Unfortunately the sponsors of the story displayed crass ignorance of simple regulatory exercise as a result of their mischievous intentions.’’
“For the records, Dana Air presently has five aircraft out of which two are undergoing mandatory maintenance which in aviation is called C-checks. The safety and comfort of our guests comes first before any other consideration and we find such report really unnecessary. We advise the purveyors of such report to rather commend us, having served Nigeria for over 10 years and counting and showing massive commitment to changing the narrative about domestic airlines and Nigeria’s aviation industry as viable.’’