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British Airways ‘admits’ to tax evasion in Nigeria – may face legal action
Threatened retalitation
Nigeria’s Aviation minister had promised British carriers to retaliate but diplomacy has seen the matter taken off the Aviation Ministry to the Foreign and Justice Ministries.
Cashing in on popular opinion, the Nigerian Senate appears with its public hearing to have wrested the matter from the Justice and Foreign Ministries.
On the huge fare disparities, Mr Olayinka told the Committee that the price differences were a matter of demand and supply as it affected only first-class and business-class passengers.
He recommended that more frequencies be allocated to foreign airlines flying the contentious routes.
Shooting down British Airways argument, the consultant for NCAA, Mr Babatunde Irukera, said more frequencies would not address the problem which he said was created by the fact that only BA and Virgin Atlantic operate direct flights to and from London.
He said 90 percent of the travellers from Lagos to London go by BA and Virgin Atlantic, adding that passengers flying Air France and KLM to London are those who could not fly British Airways because of the cost but must endure the long hours of stopovers.
Source: Africa Review
