Nigeria decides 2019: Arik Air encourages Nigerians with fly to vote promo

…As Aero slashes fares by 50%

Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

Arik Air as part of plans to encourage Nigerians to come out enmasse to vote, has introduced N16, 000 Fly to Vote promotion to encourage Nigerians travel to their respective wards in the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly Elections, as well as the Gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly Elections holding across the country on February 23, 2019 and March 9, 2019 respectively. The N16, 000 promotional fare is the one-way ticket cost to any domestic destination on Arik Air’s network and customers must present a valid Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) at the point of purchase and at checkin to be eligible to fly. The Fly to Vote promotion is available for sale from Monday, February 18, 2019 till Tuesday, March 11, 2019 for travel between Thursday, February 21 and Tuesday, February 26, 2019 as well as between Thursday, March 7, 2019, and Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Promo tickets can be purchased at any of Arik Air’s sales channels such as Airport and City Ticketing Offices or online at www.arikair.com. Elaborating on the need for the promotion, Arik Air’s Chief Executive Officer, Captain Roy Ilegbodu said: “We have put this promotional fare in place to ameliorate the effect of the postponement on the traveling public and encourage voter participation.” Meanwhile, with effect from yesterday, Aero Contractors has introduced promo fares to help Nigerians flying on any of its routes who wish to travel to go and vote during the elections to do so at half the cost. Aero in a statement said effective Monday, February 18, 2019, it commenced the sale of tickets from N16,000 for travels between the 21st and the 25th of February, 2019 on all her routes to encourage Nigerians to travel to their various destinations in order to cast their votes. Aero Contractors flies to Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, Warri, Asaba, Uyo and Sokoto and has said that this is its own contribution to support Nigeria conduct successful election and also to encourage the citizens to travel to where they can cast their votes. The airline has cut its fares by about 50 per cent to support Nigerians to travel without spending so much, adding that this is an incentive to the citizens to carry out their civil responsibility during the elections. The special fare is only available online at www.flyaero.com.