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The soaring cost of domestic air travel in Nigeria is forcing many citizens to abandon air transportation, as one-way tickets now sell for over N200,000 on several routes.

Routes such as Lagos to Abuja, Enugu, Kano, and Owerri have seen unprecedented price hikes, with some flights costing as much as N650,000, depending on the airline and the time of booking.

A one-way economy class ticket from Lagos to Abuja, previously priced between N50,000 to N65,000, now ranges between N130,000 and N220,000.

Similarly, flights from Lagos to Kano and Lagos to Owerri have reached staggering prices, with tickets costing up to N650,000 and N600,000, respectively.

Business Day reports that the surge in prices is attributed to a combination of factors, including the scarcity of foreign exchange, increased maintenance costs, and the grounding of some domestic airlines, such as Dana Air.

According to the report, many airlines are struggling to maintain their fleets, with fewer aircraft available to meet demand, creating a virtual monopoly on certain routes.

engers like Patience Kofo, who used to frequently travel with her children from Lagos to Abuja, have been priced out of flying.

“I used to spend between N500,000 to N600,000 on return tickets, but now it costs over N1.5 million,” she said.

Similarly, frequent business traveller Musa Iyal had to cancel his trip after discovering that a one-way ticket from Kano to Lagos was priced at N230,000, citing that such high costs would erode his business profits.

With rising costs and reduced fleet availability, many Nigerians are turning to alternative forms of transportation, making air travel increasingly a luxury reserved for the wealthy.

https://dailypostngr.com/2024/09/many-nigerians-abandon-air-travel-as-ticket-prices-soar-above-n200000-for-one-way-trips/

This is terrible
We really live in a very difficult period

200k for one time air travel within the country ?
What a time

G

Tinubu policies is killing businesses

What a man with high level of cluelessness

Oh Nigeria. when I flew ph to lagos for just 14k

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Very soon every aspect of the economy will shut down expect the looting government, then maybe BAT eyes will be clear to see how his wickedness has damaged the country more than it was before...

On a norms, air ticket nor suppose 10k for within niaja.
Let's say from Lagos to Maiduguri.
With 3k person suppose travel round Nigeria with train.
But our greed don finish this country.
Less than 100k either with train or by air, we suppose fit tour the whole of Ecowas countries.

samwash:
On a norms, air ticket nor suppose 10k for within niaja.
Let's say from Lagos to Maiduguri.
With 3k person suppose travel round Nigeria with train.
But our greed don finish this country.
Less than 100k either with train or by air, we suppose fit tour the whole of Ecowas countries.

$6 $2 norm

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COMRADES are speechless, honestly I don't know where this country is heading to

Just two years ago, I complaining when the domestic flight prices surged to about N50k for a one way ticket. Now this cursed athiefwajoo just made things unbelievably worse.

Tokskob2008:
Very soon every aspect of the economy will shut down expect the looting government, then maybe BAT eyes will be clear to see how his wickedness has damaged the country more than it was before...

What of your own wickedness? To the best of my knowledge, President Tinubu is only a reflection of you his peasant subjects.

Show me your President, & I will tell you who you are.

favor914:
What of your own wickedness? To the best of my knowledge, President Tinubu is only a reflection of you his peasant subjects.

Show me your President, & I will tell you who you are.

So are you saying leaders learn from followers or followers learn from leaders?

samwash:
On a norms, air ticket nor suppose 10k for within niaja.
Let's say from Lagos to Maiduguri.
With 3k person suppose travel round Nigeria with train.
But our greed don finish this country.
Less than 100k either with train or by air, we suppose fit tour the whole of Ecowas countries.

That price was in Goodluck time, in 2019 I paid 5600 naira to Abuja from Port Harcourt through ABC transport but today it's about 40k while air travel was about 27k , imagine what it was during Jonathan's government.

Thank God Mr President is not incharge of oxygen people breath he would have taxed it.Crude oil is a creation of not Mr President just refine it for everybody look at what Mr President is doing with His son and others.

The new price will favour me and my family

The new price soar will favour me and my family

Too bad!!!

APC, Buhari & Tinubu have completely destroyed Nigeria's middle class.

The middle class (who could afford to buy brand new cars) that emerged under Obasanjo after the telecom revolution has been wiped off by these people

Suddenly middle-class Nigerians can no longer afford to travel by air
Suddenly mid-class Nigeria no longer afford to buy even Tokunbo cars,
the much mid-class Nigerians can do now is scramble for Nigeria used cars, what a shame

Nothing concern me but E dey mind

Build your own airplane and fly.

Good

jmoore:
Build your own airplane and fly.

Yes oo

It's not only plant your food.

Make all of us dey meet for park, e don finally red

He Don cast....

Last Last...

Na everybody go chop breakfast...

Tinubu to feh pawon ooo🎶🎶

Emilokan 👉 Awalokan bayi o

Na real serious matter.. first flight leaving tomorrow morning that I checked was priced at 280k one way.
Things are just going up anyhow.

I thought Dangote was selling aviation fuel?