Aviation fuel scarcity bites harder, airlines reschedule flights Wole Shadare
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viation fuel scarcity that almost crippled the industry continued yesterday, as Arik Air, Dana Airline
and Medview said they are grappling with flight schedule disruptions due to the severe scarcity of Jet A1 across the country.
Since the beginning of this year, Nigeria has been grappling with inadequate supply of aviation fuel, leading in most cases
to severe shortage of the product and consequently, the disruption of flight operations. The aviation fuel scar-
city got worse at the weekend leading to many flight delays and cancellations. Dana Airline said the situation had affected its
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operations. Spokesman for Dana, Kingsley Ezeanyanwu, said the airline had not cancelled any of its 19 flights it does every day, CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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