Despite the inconveniences the six hours strike by the Air
Traffic Controllers at the nation’s airports caused Thursday, April 16, 2015,
ITRealms reports that this may continue Friday.
Sources close the airport operations and a captain of one of
the leading private airlines confided this to ITRealms midnight on Thursday, while a full blown strike expected on Monday, April 20, 2015.
According to our source, the Thursday exercise was a mild
one as Friday’s own will be intense.
ITRealms recalls that the strike by Air Traffic Controllers paralyzed
airport activities Thursday owing to unresolved operational welfare matters,
which sources claimed have been communicated to the Federal Government but was
not attended to due to the just concluded electioneering.
As at Thursday evening when skeletal services commenced at
the airports, most airlines were struggling to evacuate passengers who were
stranded at the airports.
It was also gathered that airlines struggled to reschedule
flights outside Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt for Friday morning, till early
Friday morning, which left the airlines flying throughout all the night.
However, a statement by the National Association of Air
Traffic Controllers (NATCA) Thursday, stated tat the strike was to draw the
attention of the management of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA),
to epileptic air navigation equipment, as well as the failure to address
welfare issues raised by the association last year.
NATCA also claimed that the warning strike, was a prelude to
total industrial action scheduled to begin on Monday April 20, 2015.
Although, ITRealms further gathered that the management of
NAMA has concluded plans to mitigate the effects by collaborating with the Nigerian
Air Force officials and deploying them as interim traffic controllers at
airports nationwide.
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