With only a week into the New Year, Uganda Airlines woes from 2025 seem to have followed after the Airline once again left over 100 passengers stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
According to local media, the incident comes barely three weeks after the airline abandoned hundreds of passengers at the same airport following an issue involving one of its Airbus A330-800Neo aircraft.
The latest incidence had some affected passengers, including those who travelled to Lagos from other states, have been unable to leave the airport as planned for up to a week, allegedly without prior notification from the airline.
A female passenger who travelled from Onitsha, Anambra State said her flight was moved backward by 48 hours.
It was also gathered that another batch of passengers scheduled to travel from Lagos to Entebbe, Uganda, and onward destinations on Thursday for a 6 p.m. flight, were shocked when the flight failed to depart.
Some of the passengers claimed that they did not receive any notification, either by email or text message, from the airline regarding the rescheduling of their flights.
Another female passenger decried the situation, saying she was asked to return home and then come back to the airport at 2:00 am the following day.
Efforts to obtain an official statement from the airline were unsuccessful, as calls placed to its Country Manager were not answered.
In December last year, the Airline stranded passengers at the Lagos airport after one of it’s A330-800Neo aircraft developed an incident upon landing.
Local media reports that at the time, it took the airline more than a week to evacuate the affected passengers from Lagos to their destinations through partner airlines, including RwandAir and Kenya Airways.
Uganda Airlines operates flights to Lagos twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays and also services the Abuja route.
