ASKY Airlines (KP, Lomé) has been temporarily banned from serving Nigeria after the country's first victim of the Ebola virus - a Liberia national - was found to have arrived in Lagos on-board an ASKY flight.
The General Manager for Public Communications of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Fan Ndubuoke, said in a statement that the Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) subsidiary had not demonstrated any capacity to the arrival of more Ebola victims in the Wst African country.
"The airline operations was [sic] therefore suspended with immediate effect until it is able to sufficiently and evidently prove that adequate machinery is in place to provide adequate screening of passengers in all their points of operation, including profiling of each passenger,” he said.
ASKY connects Lagos with Abidjan, Kinshasa N'Djili, Libreville Leon M'Ba, Lomé, and Pointe Noire.
Arik Air (W3, Lagos) suspended its Freetown and Monrovia Roberts operations earlier this week in a bid to curb the spread of the highly contagious disease which, thus far, has claimed over 600 lives throughout the region.
