According to the statistics from the Consumer Protection Department of NCAA, 16,353 cases of delayed flights by domestic airlines were recorded between January and June.
A document issued by the department on Thursday in Lagos, shows that 30,100 flights were operated by eight airlines during the period under review.
601 flights were cancelled for various reasons by the airlines in operation which were Aero Contractors, Arik Air, Air Peace, Azman Air, Dana Air, First Nation, Med-View and Overland.
According to the report:
Arik Air, which operated 10,261 flights, topped the chart of delayed and cancelled flights with 5,780 and 156 respectively.
Aero Contractors followed with 2,895 delayed flights and 231 cancellations out of its 4,714 flight operations.
Air Peace operated 5,366 flights with 2,328 cases of delayed flights and 12 cancelled flights.
The airlines meanwhile have attributed the delays and cancellations to the lingering scarcity of aviation fuel in the country.
Vanguard reported a travel and tourism expert, Mr Ikechi Uko, urging the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the issue.
Uko said acute shortage of aviation fuel had disrupted the operations of most domestic airlines in recent weeks. He added that the development was not good for the industry.
He said: “The fuel situation has led to flight cancellations and delays. When an airline has issue of schedule integrity, it affects the brand of the airline. So, now almost every Nigerian airline is having problem of brand integrity.
“We are having frequent flight cancellations and delays and passengers are kept waiting unnecessarily. No airline enjoys treating passengers like that. The situation will only be helped when the fuel is available. If it is not available, most foreign airlines will load fuel from other countries but for Nigerian carriers, they do not have such an option.
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