Passengers at the Port
Harcourt international airport, Omagwa have expressed total dissatisfaction over increasing level of flight delays at the airport.
They opined that the services being rendered by airline operators in terms of flight schedules are no more reliable and are inconsistent.
Expressing his feelings while interacting with The Tide on the issue, an Abuja bound passenger, Mr. Kenneth Owei expressed dissatisfaction with one of the most popular airline operators, for consistent delay and rescheduling of flight.
According to him, their flight was scheduled to depart Port Harcourt for Abuja at 11am, but the effort made to beat the time was messed up when as at 2.00 pm (local time) there was no information about their movement by the airline operator.
Also reacting to the flight delay, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Professor Ndowa Laale, in a chat with The Tide explained that he had to hurry-up and dismiss people that came to his office, so as to beat the time to catch up with the flight.
According to him, he got a disappointment, when the time on his boarding particulars was changed from 3.00pm local time to a later time in the evening.
He said this type of scenario is a huge challenge to business men, who will like to catch up with appointment, because, flight movement and those that use the airport are always in haste to meet targets.
Meanwhile, a security operative at the airport, who pleaded annonimous said the rate of delay in flight for the past few weeks has so much increase.
He expressed worries that one of the popular airlines that have huge patronage is now delaying their movement arbitrarily for more than three hours from original schedule, but pointing out that Jet ‘A1’ and maintenance was largely the cause of these delays.