The CEO of Aero Contractors, Ado Sanusi has informed the flying public that the airline will not fly any passenger who is seen to be a malaria patient or who exhibits symptoms of malaria.
They will also not admit anyone with flu.
Sanusi said this in a chat with Sunrise, a Channels T V morning program on Thursday, June 2nd. According to him, any passenger with symptoms of the 2 illnesses will be treated like a COVID19 carrier and immediately quarantined.
Speaking about barring malaria patients, he said :
“I will like to point out that if you have malaria or common cold, do not come to the airport because there is a high possibility that you are going to be denied boarding.
“The main thing for the airlines is to make sure that the airplanes are safe and that is what what we’er doing. That is why we still believe that air transportation is the safest way to travel.
“So if we see anybody sneezing, we will take him as an index passenger. We are not going to say he/she has allergies. We are going to take the person as an index passenger till we have handed him over to port health officials. They will be the ones to determine if he is allergic or has covid19.”
“My airline will not allow a passenger that comes with a doctor’s report saying he is a malaria patient. I would rather that he comes with a covid19 test result that he is free which is only valid for 4 days.
Sanusi advised malaria patients to sit at home and recover fully before embarking on a trip with Aero Contractors.
Sitting arrangement:
When asked about the sitting arrangement in the aircrafts, Sanusi explained that “If we have data that shows that if we block the centre seats, it will reduce the rate of transmission, then we will do that and increase the flight costs because somebody must pay for the centre seats.
In-flight meals:
The Aero Contractors CEO pointed out that “there won’t be serving of food because that will increase the number of times you will be contacting passengers and then the passengers would be removing their masks to eat the food so I think it is not the best.
He added that “it is a one-hour flight. It is only in Nigeria that we serve food for a one-hour flight. Go anywhere in the world and you will see that hot meals are not served on one-hour flights.