Again, Turkish Airlines Arrives Nigeria Without Passengers Luggage

Barely three weeks after Turkish Airlines Flight TK624 failed to come with luggage of its passengers from Istanbul, which led to security breach at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport (NAA), Abuja, the airline again failed to bring the luggage of another group of passengers it flown to the country through the Abuja airport during the week.

According to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the latest negligence on the part of the airline occurred, on Saturday on arrival from Istanbul Saturday at 12.35 p.m.

The latest incident came a few days after the airline was ordered to pay compensation to the affected passengers on board Flight TK624 whose luggage were delayed by the carrier for some days by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

Speaking, the General Manager, Public Affairs, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Sam Adurugboye, explained that the airline under the supervision of the Consumer Protection Officers (CPO) of the regulatory authority ensured that the passengers were paid full monetary compensation as contained in the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations (NCARs).

This reoccurrence, according to the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, Mr Yakubu Dati, made the Managing Director of the agency, Mr Saleh Dunoma, to advice the airline to resolve the recurrent cases of arriving passengers without luggage once and for all.

Dunoma gave the advice at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, where he expressed the Minister of Aviation, Alhaji Hadi Sirika’s displeasure to the management of Turkish Airlines.

Dunoma described it as unacceptable, the recurrence barely three weeks after a similar incident led to a breach of airport security