{"id":65216,"date":"2025-05-03T01:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65216"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:21:35","slug":"ncaa-reads-riot-act-to-air-peace-over-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/03\/ncaa-reads-riot-act-to-air-peace-over-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Reads Riot Act to Air Peace Over Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has issued a strong warning to Air Peace, demanding immediate solutions to frequent flight delays and cancellations that have sparked a surge in passenger complaints.<\/p>\n<p>In a closed-door meeting held on May 2 in Abuja, Director General of Civil Aviation, Captain Chris Najomo, ordered the airline to stop overscheduling flights beyond its available fleet, stating that the era of overpromising and underdelivering is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe travelling public deserves honesty and reliability,\u201d Najomo said, urging the airline to realign its schedule with its actual operational capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that continued disruptions would no longer be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>Air Peace officials admitted to operational setbacks and described them as common within the aviation sector, but they assured the NCAA that efforts are ongoing to improve service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>While pledging support for domestic airlines, Najomo stressed that compliance with aviation regulations and international standards remains non-negotiable.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that the Authority is ramping up its monitoring of all carriers to enforce higher levels of safety and service consistency.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA\u2019s move signals a tougher stance on accountability, with passenger satisfaction now taking center stage in the face of growing concerns over domestic air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has issued a strong warning to Air Peace, demanding immediate solutions to frequent flight delays and cancellations that have sparked a surge in passenger complaints. In a closed-door meeting held on May 2 in Abuja, Director General of Civil Aviation, Captain Chris Najomo, ordered the airline to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65218,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216\/revisions\/65218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}