United Airlines To Stop Flights To And From Nigeria

United Airlines will discontinue flights to and from Nigeria beginning on June 30, 2016.
The American airline’s last flights to Nigeria will depart on June 29 from Houston and June 30 from Lagos. They confirmed this to a twitter user who asked them if it was true.

 

According to reports, United Airlines is ending their flights to Nigeria because of weakness in the energy sector and difficulties in collecting money from tickets sold in that country.
The daily route from Houston to Lagos had underachieved for years but was kept alive because of its importance to Texas-based customers, United Continental Holdings Inc. said in a note to employees on Wednesday. The last flight will be June 30, after which Delta Air Lines Inc. will be the only major U.S. carrier flying to Africa.