AIR NIGERIA again in trouble with IATA: Kicked out of BSP by Lateef Lawal

Air Nigeria  has been suspended from IATA's Billing Settlement Plan(BSP) around the world effective immediately,reports reaching  NigerianAviationNews early today has indicated. 
This is the second  time within the past twelve months that IATA has taken such action against the airline.
The Billing and Settlement Plans in each country allow travel agents to issue tickets of various carriers and paying for these tickets through IATA. 
Air Nigeria still continues to operate a four times weekly service between Lagos Murtala Muhammad (LOS) and London Gatwick (LGW) with an A330-200 wet-leased from EgyptAir (MS, Cairo International (CAI)). 
All of its other operations have now been grounded for over two months since June 21 when the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority(NCAA) had suspended its air operator certificate due to "financial distress".
It had earlier laid off about 12 pilots for what it called illegal strike when they and their engineering  counterparts grounded the operations of the airline over late payment of salaries, non-remittance of tax deductions amongst other allegations.
It was in the wake of this that GE Capital repossessed the  3B737s it leased to the airline over default on lease rentals while the Federal Inland Revenue of Nigeria is presently in court with the management of Air Nigeria for non-remittance of several millions of Naira in personal tax deductions from staff and company tax to the coffers of government in the past two years.

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