NCAA approves domestic inflight service
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has given approval to domestic airline operators to resume onboard flight menu for passengers.
The agency however said that the inflight meals should only be given to passengers on disembarkation. NCAA in a circular personally signed by Capt. Musa Nuhu, its Director-General, dated June 4, 2021 with the reference number: NCAA/DG/AIR/11/16/312 to airline operators, catering service providers insisted that no catering products would be served OE consume inflight by passengers.
The circular said:”Domestic airlines shall serve pre-packed catering products (Meals, snacks etc) in sealed containers to their passengers during disembarkation. No catering products shall be served or consumed in-flight by airlines or passengers respectively on any domestic flight.”
The resumption of inflight service was coming more than a year after the service was suspended due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic.
The circular added that catering service providers had been identified by the authority as one of the key service providers to airlines that are required to put in place COVID-19 risk management measures to assure the travelling public that catering products (meals, snacks etc) served on board flights are not a potential source of COVID-19 infection.
With this, he said domestic flight operations in the country in-flight catering companies were required by the to carry out regular risk assessments of their operations and put in place remedial actions to address any identified hazard to prevent the possible spread of COVID-19 virus to their customers through their products.
The circular threatened to sanction any organization that failed to comply with the directive.
