The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has canceled Dana Airlines’ Air Transport Licence (ATL) and Air Operator Certificate (AOC) indefinitely.
The suspension took effect from midnight of July 20, 2022.
The action was made under Section 35(2), 3(b), and (4) of the Civil Aviation Act, 2006, and Part 1.3.3.3(a)(1) of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (Nig.CARs), 2015.
NCAA spokesman Sam Adurogboye, who announced this yesterday, said the decision was the outcome of a financial and economic health audit carried out on the airline by the NCAA.
There was also commotion yesterday at the new domestic terminal of the Lagos Airport, called the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA2) when passengers destroyed the property of the airline.
The passengers were angry over the poor communication by Dana Air on the indefinite suspension of its operations by the NCAA.
Numbering over 100, the passengers said the airline management failed to brief them on the airline’s next line of action on a possible transfer to other partner airlines or refund of their ticket fares.
While security officials of the terminal manager, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, made frantic efforts to calm some of the passengers, others damaged the glass windows of the airline’s counters.
