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BY  Chinedu Eze

Many Nigerians have inadvertently booked and paid for flights on fraudulent airline sites, which are either cloned or copied to look like that of the airlines by fraudsters.

In fact, it is projected that air travellers may have lost about N2 billion on such fake sites in the last five years, but as airlines strive to inform travellers about such possible sites, some continue to fall victims, especially now Internet fraud is on the increase.

Spokesman of Air Peace, Stanley Olisa told THISDAY that there was a time some fraudsters manipulated the airline’s website and travellers were making payments into it.

He explained that the fraudsters created fake Air Peace account so that when passengers book their flights they pay into the fake accounts.

Under the fraudulent platforms they created their own accounts and people were going to the page to book flights and making payments.

But when the airline was notified its IT team successfully blocked the fake account. The airline also notified travellers, using all media platforms about the fraudulent account.

“That fake site has been halted. We have our standard media platforms. We are on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and we have our website. We also have travel agents we partner with and in addition to those, we also have mobile app.

“Besides these platforms, any other one is a sham. Such platforms should not be patronised. Travellers wishing to buy our tickets can also go to airports. We have telephone numbers on the website and email, so you can place a call to us,” Olisa explained.

Also Azman Air booking website had been cloned in the past and travellers booked, bought tickets and paid to the wrong accounts and in the process lost millions of naira.

A source from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) consumer protection directorate then explained that some crooks opened a fake website named azmanair, whereas the real Azman Air airline website was airazman. So they used the website to defraud people and rip them off of millions of naira.

“So if by any chance you go to the website and entered the crooks site and go ahead and make payment you will find out that you are not billed for any flight,” the official explained then.

“We called Azman and told them they have to warn people and they placed advert on the pages of newspapers and other media. Then we made serious efforts to block the website, which we have now succeeded in doing,” the source also said.

But Head of Communication, Dana Air, Kingsley Ezenwa, told THISDAY that whereas the airline has not experienced its website being cloned, it was job scam that it had experienced, whereby people use the name of the airline to advertise fake job vacancies and they would invite prospective candidates to Abuja for interview and ask them to pay for flight ticket.

“Once you pay for flight ticket they take the money and disappear because you pay into their private account,” he said.

Ezenwa explained that Dana Air has fortified website that once it is opened Dana Air advert would appear, which confirms the genuineness of the site.

IT expert and Editor of Techeconomy.ng, Mr. Peter Oruka, said internet fraudsters succeed in creating fake airlines website because people do not know the original URL of those sites so the inadvertently book and pay for tickets in fake accounts.

He explained that the fake ones usually look more attractive and when they open it. “So airlines should be able to tell people their original websites. It is the passengers that lose money, not the airlines. The fraudsters are interested in the credit card numbers of their victims, which they use to access their accounts.

“They should buy domain names around their own site like if an airline’s website is azmanair.com, for example, it should also buy domain names like airazman.com, flyazman air etc. That way it would be difficult to create a site close to the name of the airline,” he explained.

Oruka also said sometimes fraudsters do not even clone the sites, but introduce ransomware, which they use to scan your system and collect account numbers.

He advised that before opening a site one should look at the URL and the address, hpps/, noting that the ‘s’ means security, so if the ‘s’ is not in the address it means that it is not a secure site.

• Vaccinated avoid quarantine from some countries from July 19
• Those returning from amber list countries must still take tests
• Children exempt from self-isolation but must test
• Fully vaccinated non-Britons must still quarantine

LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - Fully-vaccinated Britons returning from medium-risk amber list countries will no longer have to quarantine when they arrive home from July 19, transport secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday.

The rule change will be a huge boost to airlines and the travel industry which have been brought to their knees by 15 months of restrictions. In Britain, 65% of adults have been fully vaccinated, opening up travel for millions.

"I can confirm today that from the 19th of July, UK residents who are fully vaccinated through the UK vaccine rollout will no longer have to self-isolate when they return to England," Shapps said.

The need to quarantine on return had prevented a travel recovery. Under previous rules, those returning to Britain from its top destinations, Spain, France, the United States and Italy, all had to self-isolate for up to 10 days.

Shares in British Airways-owner IAG (ICAG.L) and easyJet (EZJ.L) both traded up 2% immediately after the news, which will also be welcomed by Southern European countries eager for UK tourist revenues.

EasyJet said holiday bookings to amber countries surged 440% after the government announcement compared to the previous week.

"We have been delighted with the customer response to the removal of Amber list quarantine for the fully vaccinated, so Europe has now turned Green for the double jabbed," easyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said in a statement. "This means that millions will finally be able to reunite with family and loved ones abroad or take that long-awaited trip this summer."

The rule change only applies to amber list countries. For countries on the UK's high-risk red list, fully-vaccinated Britons will still be required to self-isolate in a hotel.

TIGHTENING RULES

While Britain opens up, worries over the spread of the Delta variant from the U.K. could still derail a travel recovery. Italy, Portugal and Spain have all recently tightened entry requirements for Britons, with Italy requiring five days of quarantine.

Shapps said that Britons returning from amber list destinations would still have to take a COVID-19 test before they arrive home and then a second test on or before day two. Children under the age of 18 will not have to self-isolate but will need to take tests.

Bookings for the crucial peak late July and August holiday season, when the industry makes most of its profit, are expected to soar following the rule change.

Airlines and holiday companies like TUI and Jet2 (JET2.L) have repeatedly called for an end to quarantine but it will however remain in place for non-Britons for now, said Shapps, disappointing the industry.

"We're working to extend our approach to vaccinated passengers from important markets and holiday destinations, later this summer, such as the United States and the EU," he said.

He said he would provide an update in due course.

British Airways said that while it was pleased with Shapps's announcement, it wanted to see progress on scrapping quarantine for non-Britons.

"The government needs to quickly extend this to all vaccinated travellers, agree a reciprocal deal with the US, add more countries to the 'green' list and reduce the need for unnecessary, expensive tests," BA chief executive Sean Doyle said.

Reporting by Sarah Young, William James and Paul Sandle; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Giles Elgood

BY  Dayo Ojerinde

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday said it had detected a confirmed case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2.

The NCDC in a statement said the variant was detected in a traveller to Nigeria, following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja.

The deadly Delta variant is recognised by the World Health Organisation as a variant of concern, given its increased transmissibility.

The variant has been detected in over 90 countries and is expected to spread to more countries, according to the NCDC.

The NCDC Head of Communications, Dr Yahya Disu, in the statement said the variant had been linked to a surge in cases in countries where “it is the dominant strain” in circulation.

“There are ongoing studies to understand the impact of the variant on existing vaccines and therapeutics. As part of Nigeria’s COVID-19 response, NCDC has been working with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, African Centre for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, and other laboratories within the national networ, to carry out genomic sequencing.

“This is to enable the detection of variants of concern, and initiate response activities. All data on variants from Nigeria have been published on GISAID, a global mechanism for sharing sequencing data. Given the global risk of spread of the Delta variant, positive samples from international travellers to Nigeria are sequenced regularly,” the statement partly reads.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said the state would not relent to punish international travellers evading isolation.

He said, “Anybody who tries to bypass the Presidential Steering Committee regulations will have their passports deactivated and will face sanctions when they are brought to the attention of the law enforcement agencies.

“We have a number of people that we published in the newspapers who need to present themselves to the Lagos State Government and explain why they have chosen to beat the guidelines. We are in the process of applying sanctions to many people or deactivate their passports.

“We are expecting a large number of children returning to the country from Europe for the summer vacation. We know that the Delta strain is circulating in Europe and, therefore, these sanctions are very important.”

BY  Justin Bachman, Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Richard Branson and five Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. employees are poised to take off on a test flight to space, a milestone for the company he founded in 2004 as it prepares to debut tourism trips next year.

The flight is set to leave from New Mexico at about 8:30 a.m. local time after an overnight delay caused by bad weather. According to the mission plan, the VSS Unity space plane will be hauled aloft by a carrier aircraft and detached at about 45,000 feet (13,700 meters). It will then ignite its rocket engine and ascend to about 290,000 feet or 55 miles (89 kilometers) above the Earth.

The suborbital journey kicks off a landmark month for the future of space tourism, with Branson looking to demonstrate Virgin Galactic’s capabilities nine days before Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos plans to fly on a rocket made by Blue Origin, his space venture. Both companies envision businesses catering to wealthy tourists willing to pay top dollar for a few minutes of weightlessness and an unforgettable view of the Earth and heavens.

Branson, 70, and his fellow crewmembers are expected to experience about four minutes of weightlessness. After reaching its highest altitude, the Unity is designed to pivot in space and glide back to the Spaceport America complex near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Customer Experience

The mission is the spacecraft’s 22nd test flight and first with a large crew. Virgin Galactic has dubbed the flight “Unity 22,” and it’s the first of two tests the company is planning this summer before an astronaut-training mission with Italian Air Force personnel later this year.

Branson is evaluating the customer experience during the flight and in the various preparatory events Virgin Galactic plans around its launches. Also on board:

• Dave “Mac” Mackay, chief pilot. He is among Virgin Galactic’s earliest hires. He is a former U.K. Royal Air Force test pilot and Boeing 747 aviator at Branson-backed Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. Mackay, who grew up in a rural village in northern Scotland, became the first Scotsman to fly to space.
• Michael “Sooch” Masucci, pilot. He is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel with more than 10,000 hours experience in the U-2 and F-16 jets, along with dozens of other aircraft types. He joined Virgin in 2013 and first flew to space in 2019.
• Sirisha Bandla, Virgin’s vice president of government affairs. She will test the “researcher experience” during the flight with a plant experiment from the University of Florida. Born in Guntur, in the Andhra Pradesh province of southern India, she will become the second Indian-American woman to travel in space.
• Colin Bennett, a Virgin Galactic engineer. He will evaluate cabin procedures during the test flight. Bennett has worked for Virgin Galactic as an operations engineer for six years in California, according to his LinkedIn page. Previously, he was an engineer at Virgin Atlantic.
• Beth Moses, Virgin’s chief astronaut instructor. She is making her second space flight after a trip in February 2019. The flight made Moses the 571st person to travel to space, according to Virgin Galactic. She will be the test director Sunday and the cabin lead. Moses worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for 24 years before joining the company. Her husband, Mike Moses, is Virgin Galactic’s president of space missions and safety.

Virgin last flew the two-craft system on May 22. The company said the Unity performed well after more than two months of work to minimize electromagnetic interference that had delayed a planned February 2021 test. In a flight in December 2020, the rocket motor failed to ignite and the spacecraft glided back to the spaceport.

The test in May was the company’s first successful powered flight since February 2019. Following the test that took place more than two years ago, flight engineers discovered hull damage on the spacecraft from air pressure that had built up after ventilating holes were accidentally covered, according to “Test Gods,” a book published this year by New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle.

The company plans to begin working down its backlog of around 600 confirmed customers in early 2022. Virgin Galactic has said it will resume ticket sales after the summer’s test flights, with executives signaling that fares will be higher than the prior price of $250,000 a seat.

Virgin Galactic’s shares have doubled this year through Friday, valuing the startup at almost $12 billion.

BY  Stephen Angbulu

The Federal Government has vowed to recover a total of N37bn from airlines still owing various categories of debts.

This is just as the government stated that the ban on Emirates Airlines would continue.

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, stated these at this week’s ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the presidential villa, Abuja.

Sirika who said airlines owed federal agencies N37bn also explained that Arik owed between N13bn and N14bn.

The minister added that construction firm, Bi-Courtney, owed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria about N14bn.

He said the aviation service provider had not repaid any part of that amount in its last 13 years of operations. This, he said, contravened the existing agreement between it and the government.

Sirika stated that the debt was spread across government agencies including the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, among others.

Sirika added, “So, this brings us to the question of the money owed to the parastatals. It is about N37bn that they owe them, especially, Arik, the culprit. I know they owe us about N13bn to N14bn.

“If you owe FAAN, you owe the government. Bi-Courtney owes about N14bn as of the last count. It has not paid a single dime since the time he started to run the terminal building.

“And we have not ceased giving him electricity, water, fire cover, and so on and so forth. He hasn’t paid a dime for 13 years.

“If we go to shut his doors, the media, of course, and Nigerian people will say we’re killing businesses but he is killing our services too because we have to have that money to provide for that toilet that you’re seeing in Lagos airport.

“Most of these are living by their IGRs and so, we need the money but we will go after the money.”

Sirika explained that the company flouted government regulations from its inception when it built the Lagos terminal in the wrong location.

He explained, “They did not build in the original location that we gave. They moved to another location. They also annexed what is not part of the agreement, like the car park and the school and so on and started to build a hotel, which is not part of the agreement. But that’s another issue.

“So, they produced a terminal. But when you produce a terminal, you should be paying the agreed money back to the government over time to a point where you will return the terminal building.

“In this case, it was supposed to be 12 years because he didn’t do anything ab initio. After two years of doing nothing, he now quickly built when already two, three, four years had gone from 12 years.”

Sirika added that in those 13 years, the firm had not paid FAAN or any agency a single dime for operating the terminal.

Speaking on the suspension of Emirates Airlines’ operations in Nigeria, the minister said the government took that step because the company was ‘discriminatory against our country and it is not acceptable’.

He added that there was no resumption date yet for the airline.

According to him, Dubai demands that Nigerians cannot fly to UAE except through Emirates airline and if they choose to do so through other airlines like Ethiopia, Qatar, Turkish or other airlines, they must remain in the country of that airline for two weeks if they are Nigerians before they continue to Dubai.

“Nigeria considers this as discriminatory and will not allow that to stand,” Sirika said.

He said with the 200 million travelling population from Nigeria, and the huge foreign exchange from travellers, ‘we cannot afford to be hoodwinked to their own terms and conditions’.

BY  Kerim Karakaya, Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) --

Turkish Airlines decided to increase staff wages in July as the easing of coronavirus restrictions in many countries raised hopes for a quicker recovery in aviation.

The salaries of both domestic and foreign personnel working on the reopened international routes have been raised by a minimum of 10% above inflation, the airline said in a statement.

The company cited global loosening of restrictions and the cautious optimism over vaccination programs, while also taking into account sacrifices made by employees during the pandemic.

Turkish Airlines is one of the first major carriers to post a profit this year after a boost in freight revenue. The company announced first quarter net income of $50.5 million, or 438 million liras, even as sales declined, reversing a year-earlier loss and beating analyst estimates.

Last year, the company put foreign national pilots on unpaid leave to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its finances.

By Justin Bachman

•  Mission boosts company’s plan to start tourism trips next year
•  Suborbital trip caps boyhood dream for daredevil billionaire

Billionaire Richard Branson and five Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. employees pulled off a key test flight to space, bolstering the company’s plans to debut tourism trips next year.

The VSS Unity space plane glided back through sunny skies to land in New Mexico at about 9:38 a.m. local time, shortly after detaching from a carrier aircraft and rocketing to an altitude of about 282,000 feet, or more than 53 miles (86 kilometers) above the Earth. Branson and the crew are expected to discuss the trip in a news conference later Sunday.

The suborbital journey kicks off a landmark month for the future of space tourism, with Branson looking to demonstrate Virgin Galactic’s capabilities nine days before Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos plans to fly on a rocket made by Blue Origin, his space venture. Both companies envision businesses catering to wealthy tourists willing to pay top dollar for a short period of weightlessness and an unforgettable view of the Earth and heavens.

“It’s taken 15 years for Galactic to get to this place.” Will Whitehorn, former Virgin Galactic President spoke to @timsteno and @emilychangTV as Richard Branson sets off for a flight into space pic.twitter.com/BllYJpxLBt
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake)July 11, 2021

It wasn’t immediately clear how long Branson, 70, and his fellow crewmembers experienced weightlessness. After reaching its highest altitude, the Unity pivoted in space and returned to the Spaceport America complex near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

The mission was the spacecraft’s 22nd test flight and first with a large crew. Virgin Galactic has dubbed the flight “Unity 22,” and it’s the first of two tests the company is planning this summer before an astronaut-training mission with Italian Air Force personnel later this year.

Branson was to evaluate the customer experience during the flight and in the various preparatory events Virgin Galactic plans around its launches. Also on board:

• Dave “Mac” Mackay, chief pilot. He is among Virgin Galactic’s earliest hires. He is a former U.K. Royal Air Force test pilot and Boeing 747 aviator at Branson-backed Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. Mackay, who grew up in a rural village in northern Scotland, became the first Scotsman to fly to space.
• Michael “Sooch” Masucci, pilot. He is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel with more than 10,000 hours experience in the U-2 and F-16 jets, along with dozens of other aircraft types. He joined Virgin in 2013 and first flew to space in 2019.
• Sirisha Bandla, Virgin’s vice president of government affairs. She will test the “researcher experience” during the flight with a plant experiment from the University of Florida. Born in Guntur, in the Andhra Pradesh province of southern India, she will become the second Indian-American woman to travel in space.
• Colin Bennett, a Virgin Galactic engineer. He will evaluate cabin procedures during the test flight. Bennett has worked for Virgin Galactic as an operations engineer for six years in California, according to his LinkedIn page. Previously, he was an engineer at Virgin Atlantic.
• Beth Moses, Virgin’s chief astronaut instructor. She is making her second space flight after a trip in February 2019. The flight made Moses the 571st person to travel to space, according to Virgin Galactic. She will be the test director Sunday and the cabin lead. Moses worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for 24 years before joining the company. Her husband, Mike Moses, is Virgin Galactic’s president of space missions and safety.

Virgin last flew the two-craft system on May 22. The company said the Unity performed well after more than two months of work to minimize electromagnetic interference that had delayed a planned February 2021 test. In a flight in December 2020, the rocket motor failed to ignite and the spacecraft glided back to the spaceport.

The test in May was the company’s first successful powered flight since February 2019. Following the test that took place more than two years ago, flight engineers discovered hull damage on the spacecraft from air pressure that had built up after ventilating holes were accidentally covered, according to “Test Gods,” a book published this year by New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle.

The company plans to begin working down its backlog of around 600 confirmed customers in early 2022. Virgin Galactic has said it will resume ticket sales after the summer’s test flights, with executives signaling that fares will be higher than the prior price of $250,000 a seat.

Virgin Galactic’s shares have doubled this year through Friday, lifting the company’s value to almost $12 billion.

— With assistance by Edward Ludlow

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Plans to tackle the second homes "crisis" in Wales are "vague" and "unambitious", a campaign group says.

Hundreds gathered at Llyn Celyn in Gwynedd on Saturday after the Welsh government announced plans to "inject fairness back into the housing system".

Gwynedd has the highest number of second homes at 5,098, which represents 20% of all second homes in Wales.

The Welsh government said it was "working at speed" for "sustainable solutions to what are complex issues".

Mabli Siriol, chairwoman of Welsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith, addressed the crowd and called for "urgent action".

She called for measures including new taxes and legislation to bring in price caps on second homes, and "invest that money in our communities to bring houses back into public hands".

'Urgent steps'

"What we've got from them is vague and unambitious promises - more consultation, more pilot projects - that will take years to make a difference, which is time we can't afford to waste," she said.

There were 24,873 second homes registered for council tax purposes in Wales in January 2021, according to official figures.

Officials say numbers of homes could be much higher depending on the exact definition of a second home.

Those looking to buy second homes or buy-to-let properties in Wales have to pay an extra 3% in land transaction tax (LTT) on top of the tax payable for their band.

New figures from the Welsh Revenue Authority show 44% of all homes sold in the Gwynedd constituency of Dwyfor Meirionnydd during 2020-21 were subject to the higher rate of LTT.

The area's member of the Senedd (MS), Mabon ap Gwynfor, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "These latest statistics show that the housing crisis is getting worse and that the Welsh government's decision to raise the LTT by 1% hasn't worked... we have to take much more ambitious steps."

'Complex issues'

Earlier this week the Welsh government said it would pick an area of Wales to pilot new policies aimed at "injecting fairness back into the housing system".

It said officials would also look at options to shut a tax "loophole" where some second home owners do not pay council tax.

The government has also said it will launch a Welsh Language Communities Housing Plan in the autumn.

A Welsh government spokesman said: "Fairness is at the heart of our plans, ensuring that everyone in Wales can have access to good quality, affordable housing.

"Within the first two months of forming a new government, we have set out plans to begin to address the impact of second and holiday home ownership in some communities and to protect the interests of Welsh language communities.

"We are working at speed to implement sustainable solutions to what are complex issues."

(Bloomberg) --

Sydneysiders are braced for a longer and tighter lockdown after Australia’s biggest city recorded 50 new daily cases on Saturday.

“Things are going to get worse before they get better,” New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference. “Unless we reduce that level of people in the community that are infectious, we won’t be able to turn things around as quickly as we can or as quickly as we should.”

Of the new cases, 26 were infectious while in the community. Total cases in the current delta variant outbreak are now at 489 and Berejiklian has warned that unless it is quickly brought under control, Sydney’s lockdown will need to stay in place beyond July 16.

On Friday, the government imposed stricter social-distancing measures including only allowing one person in a household to shop for food or other essentials once a day.

While tough border restrictions helped Australia prevent the waves of death and illness that swept the U.S. and Europe, a slow vaccine rollout has left it still largely unprotected against the virus. Just 26% of the country’s roughly 26 million people have received their first jab, compared to 68% in the U.K, according to Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker.

On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said a deal with Pfizer Inc. will see millions of vaccine doses delivered earlier than previously scheduled, meaning every Australian will be offered at least one jab by year-end.

Vaccine access has been mainly limited to priority groups and the over 40s, with a shortage of supply meaning even those eligible face long waits to book appointments.

With no clear end in sight to the Sydney lockdown, Federal Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese on Saturday called on Morrison to do more to support casual employees put out of work by the city’s closure.

Good times are here for subscribers to national telecommunication company, Globacom, who are frequent travellers to China and United Arab Emirates, as the company’s pre-paid roaming, data roaming and 4G LTE services formally commence in the  Asian and Middle East countries.

In a press statement issued in Lagos, Globacom said the services were extended to these countries as part of its efforts to ensure that Glo subscribers on vacation or business trips have access to its services in different parts of the world.

“We assure our customers of excellent calling and browsing services”, Globacom said, adding that  Glo customers will have unrestricted access to its super-fast 4G LTE and pre-paid roaming as well as all post-paid services launched many years ago, whenever they visit China and UAE.

“Globacom has the largest roaming footprint covering over 500 networks across over 90 countries,” the company added, explaining that  its roaming rates across different countries are the most competitive in the industry .

The locations where Glo pre and post services are available have therefore increased with China and the United Arab Emirates joining the United Kingdom, Finland, Spain, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Holland, France, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland and Denmark. Others are American regions including Brazil, United States, Bolivia, Cayman and Grenada, Chile, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia and Paraguay.

Glo subscribers will also enjoy the company’s post-paid services in the Asian country of Japan, especially now that the Olympic Games are a month away. This will give the Nigerian contingent to the games the opportunity to communicate and chat effortlessly with their loved ones during the games.