Nigerian Airline operators have said they have only 3 days from today to shutdown operations over lack of aviation fuel.
This was as the aviation fuel marketers have failed to convince the House of Representatives on why the prices of the product are hitting the rooftops on daily basis.
At the moment, the airlines are buying the fuel at N670 from normal price of 190 recently.
The airline operators are demanding operational licenses from the federal government to begin importation of fuel, following the recent fuel scarcity across the country.
Airpeace Chairman, Allen Onyema, gave this warning while speaking at a meeting of oil marketers and Airline operators at the National Assembly.
‘We have only three more days, all airlines in Nigeria will shut down. We are not threatening this country, it is a fact”, Onyema said.
‘I have the mandate of all airlines to demand that Airlines begin importation of fuel, if we can buy planes of millions of dollars, we can also import fuel ourselves. Let NNPC give Airlines licenses, we want to import ourselves,” Onyema insisted.
He said that if they were to continue flying, an average Nigerian will spend N120, 000 for an economy ticket.