Covid-19: Dana Air assures guests of health and well-being security, hints on Safety Flight procedures

Chinazor Megbolu

In a bid towards maintaining social distancing guideline in its operations as regards, Dana Air has pledged to give its guests some sense of security about their health and well-being when flying in the face of Covid-19 pandemic.

The organisation in a statement on Monday, announced that it will keep the middle seats on all its aircraft empty once it resumes flight operations.

The Accountable Manager, Dana Air, Mr. Obi Mbanuzuo, in the statement noted that Dana Air will commence this initiative when flights resume. He buttressed that the company will maintain such initiative for a while and listen to the feedback from the airline’s customers.

“Majority of our aircrafts are configured with mainly three seats in a row, on either side of the aisle, so when we resume flights anytime soon, we will keep the middle seats empty so passengers can sit on the window and aisle seats to ensure some physical distancing onboard all our flights.

”This is just to give our guests some sense of security about their health and well-being when flying with us immediately after the pandemic and it will be for some time, while we continue to review feedback from our guests on their thoughts, but we believe it what customers might like to see.

“Our first concern is the safety and well-being of our staff and customers and we have made firm arrangements to ensure that our thorough cleaning and disinfection program continues,” he said.

Mbanuzuo also disclosed that the airline is taking the move very seriously.

According to him; “we are taking this seriously as we do not know how long this will last”.

On challenges so far faced regarding Covid-19, the statement contained that domestic airlines lost over N360 billions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and added the loss is still on the rise.

“There charges, fees, allowances, salaries, aircraft leases, taxes all pending and over 100 aircraft parked nationwide without generating a dime. The VAT which contributes to the high cost of airfares is yet to be removed.

“These are the issues and the government needs to seriously consider helping airlines to survive this trying time,” Mbanuzuo said.

Editing by ‘Biodun Soyele