A law firm, Sovereignty Legal Practitioners, has threatened to file a class action against British Airways over the systematic inhuman treatment of Nigerian passengers using the airline.

In a pre-action letter to the airline dated August 30, 2024, and signed by its Principal Partner, Ife Ajayi, the law firm decried the persistent disruption of scheduled flights to Nigeria as a result of the airline’s alleged deployment of faulty and substandard aircraft to Nigerian routes.

The firm noted that it would file a class action against the airline if the practice were not checkmated. The letter addressed to the Customer Relations department of the airline in London, was also forwarded to the Nigerian Aviation Ministry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chairman of National Assembly, British Embassy, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

In the letter, the firm noted that hundreds of Nigerian passengers have experienced untold hardship following frequent delays and cancellations of their flights owing to technical faults of the aircraft used on the Nigerian routes.

On August 29, 2024, at Heathrow Airport, Nigerians in an Abuja-bound British Airways flight were disembarked after three hours of check-in and later crammed into low-class hotels without any definite date or time for their departure.

Culled from Guardian