A Lagos pharmacist has sued an airline,
Aero Contractors, for cancelling its scheduled flight from Lagos to
Abuja on October 18, 2012.
In a suit filed at the Federal High
Court, Ikeja, Lagos, by his counsel, Kehinde Imoohi, and dated February
25, 2013, Dr. Greg Imoohi is asking for N9,530,000 in special and
general damages from the airline for the losses and damages he suffered
after the cancellation of flight AJ 130 he booked to travel from Abuja
to Lagos on October 18, 2012 without any reasonable notice or reason.
In his statement of claim, the
pharmacist, who said he booked on October 17, 2012, in Abuja for the
flight scheduled to depart the Federal Capital Territory the next day at
4:15 pm and arrive Lagos at 5.30 pm, averred that the sudden
cancellation of the flight without notice caused him losses, emotional
distress, hardship and inconveniences.
The officials of the airline at the
Nnamdi Azikwe Airport, he further claimed, had declined to volunteer any
information to him on the cancellation and he consequently checked into
a hotel, where he remained for six days before his flight was
reconfirmed.
He said he had made an elaborate
arrangement to celebrate his birthday in Lagos on October 22, 2012, but
aborted it when he could not make it to Lagos due to the flight
cancellation and his resultant delay.
The plaintiff faulted the claims in the
letter of the airline to his lawyer that the flight was cancelled due to
weather condition and operational reasons which may have impacted on
safety.
The reasons, he said, were not only an
afterthought “aimed at justifying their negligence, wilful misconduct
and breach of duty to care,” the excuse of “weather condition,” was
untenable as some other airlines, including ARIK and IRS made their
respective flights at about the same time from that airport on that day.
No date has been fixed for the mention of the case.
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