Few months after its inaugural flight took off on December 7, 2017, Medview Airline has announced that it has suspended its Lagos to Dubai operations.
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While speaking with journalists on Monday, Muneer Bankole, the managing director of Medview airline, said it has suspended its Lagos to Dubai operations, almost two months after its inaugural flight took off on December 7, 2017.
He said that their operations have been suspended because there was no ready aircraft to service the route until a new given date.
According to TheCable, Bankole who said Dubai bound flights will resume operations on March 24, 2018, added that the airline would use the opportunity to sort things out with Euro Atlantic, its lessor and partner for 12 years.
He said: “While we want to leave the past behind us, it is imperative to say we have issues with our European partners over aircraft we leased from them.
“From all indications, this aircraft has not been able to meet our requirements in providing the necessary capacity. The UK Civil Aviation Authority has been supportive when it dawned on them the issue had to do with aircraft.”
He said the airline would continue on its Lagos-London route although with an alternative aircraft. “We will also maintain three weekly flights,” Bankole said.
“We have shut down Dubai operation till March when our aircraft Boeing B767-300 ER christened ‘Abeke’ returns from complete refurbishment in the UK. Passengers who have booked with us will be flown to their destinations via interline arrangements.”