Some foreign airlines are allegely planing to resume  flights to Lagos, Abuja and port-harcourt airports despite the ban on international commercial flights by the federal government in a bid to halt COVID19 spread.

Although some of the airlines said their plan could change, it was learnt on Saturday that some of the international carriers had already scheduled some flights to Nigeria from June.

But the Federal Ministry of Aviation announced that such plans would not work  until the flight ban was lifted.

Also, the Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria said no foreign or local career could take decision to fly to or within Nigeria if the government had not opened the airspace.

It was learnt on Saturday that Lufthansa Airlines had included Abuja and Port-harcourt among its 20 long-haul routes to begin flight operations in June.

It was learnt that the carrier had made its first batch of flight reservation available in its booking system.

The FG on May6 Extended the suspension of both local and international flights  by four weeks.

The government had earlier halted commercial flights by two weeks before it announced the four weeks extension..

The Director, Public Affairs, FMA, James Odaudu, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had not lifted the ban on commercial flights, whether foreign or local.



Supremewriter reports.