United States carrier,
United Airlines, will stop flying to Nigeria next month, ending operations on
its only African route because of weakness in the energy sector and
difficulties in repatriating money from tickets sold in the country.
This came barely six
weeks after Spain’s national carrier, Iberia Plc, stopped flights to Nigeria,
citing dwindling passenger traffic as the reason.
United Airlines said in a note to employees on Wednesday that the daily route
from Houston to Lagos had underachieved for years but was kept alive because of
its importance to Texas-based customers.
The last flight will be
on June 30, 2016, after which Delta Air Lines will be the only major US carrier
flying to Africa.
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