The national carrier of Namibia, Air Namibia, has suspended its Windhoek-Lagos-Accra flight services.
The airline announced the indefinite suspension of the four times weekly flight operations on Friday.
Although the airline’s Nigerian office has yet to issue an official statement on the development, sources told our correspondent that the suspension was due to diplomatic issues from Namibia.
One of the sources said, “There are some diplomatic issues that need to be resolved with the Namibian authorities. The issue has nothing to do with the high commission in Nigeria but with the high commission and immigration in Namibia.
According to the source, the authorities have commenced diplomatic engagement to have the issues resolved, adding that there were no issues from the Nigerian end.
“Presently, Nigerians going to Namibia have no issues with processing visas but airlines look at profitability; you can’t be filling the aircraft from this side and flights from that side are empty, so these are issues that need to be resolved from that side,” the source added.
Source: Punch Newspaper
