{"id":1728,"date":"2013-04-07T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/arik-air-cabin-attendants-threaten-strike\/"},"modified":"2013-04-07T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:41:12","slug":"arik-air-cabin-attendants-threaten-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/arik-air-cabin-attendants-threaten-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Arik Air Cabin Attendants Threaten Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\n Simon Ateba\/Aviation correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n Flight Attendants at Arik Air have warned they may soon go on strike, after Nigeria’s largest airline slashed their allowances by more than 70 percent.<\/p>\n Workers warned all Arik’s 23 planes may be grounded if prompt actions were not taken.<\/p>\n Before now, Arik Air used to pay their flight attendants N1400 (about $ 8) per hour in allowances but the airline has scrapped the arrangement and has decided to pay N1500 (about $ 9) for a one-way trip and N3000 (about $ 18) for a round trip.<\/p>\n “A Lagos-New York-Lagos flight is 24 hours. They used to pay us N1400 per hour, which is N33600. Now they say they will just pay us N3000 for the same round trip,” a flight attendant said.<\/p>\n “Within Nigeria, it was the same thing. Arik Air used to pay us N1400 per hour to any destination. Now they will just pay us N3000 for a round trip even if we spend four hours,” a crew who did not want to be mentioned said.<\/p>\n