The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said that domestic airlines operating in the country between January 2014 and last March recorded 40,574 cases of delayed flights while 600 others were cancelled.
This is contained in a document by NCAA’s Consumer Protection Department in Lagos.
The document said 84,449 flights were operated by 10 domestic airlines during the period under review.
It said the airlines in operation then were: Aero Contractors, Arik, Air Peace, Azman, Dana, Discovery, First Nation, Medview, Overland and Top Brass.
Arik, which operated 34,489 flights, topped the chart of delayed and cancelled flights with 16,041 and 244 respectively.
This was closely followed by Aero Contractors which recorded 13,564 delayed flights and 203 cancellations out of its 24,160 flight operations.
Dana operated 6,290 flights with 1,807 delayed flights while only one flight was cancelled.
Some of the delays and cancellations were caused by technical, weather conditions, air traffic control restrictions, security risks and industrial disputes.
