More than 100 passengers are stuck at Lagos’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) due to Uganda Airlines.
According to The Guardian, this comes just three weeks after the airline left hundreds of people at the same airport due to an issue with one of its Airbus A330-800Neo aircraft.
For the second time, apparently without warning from the airline, some impacted passengers—including those who had traveled to Lagos from other states—have been stuck in the airport for as long as a week.
The impacted flight was delayed by 48 hours, according to one female passenger who traveled from Onitsha, Anambra State and preferred her identity not to be revealed.
Our source was informed by her that according to the updated timetable, she and the other passengers were supposed to take off tomorrow at 2 a.m.
The flight’s eventual departure time was uncertain at the time of this report’s writing.
Rumor has it that another group of people were taken aback when their 6 p.m. flight from Lagos to Entebbe, Uganda, and beyond did not take off.
A few customers complained that the airline never contacted them via email or text message to inform them that their flights had been rescheduled.
A different female traveler complained about the scenario, stating that she was told to go home and return to the airport at 2 in the morning the next day.
She complained that the airline had not notified her via email of the flight’s cancelation or delay. I was taken aback when I arrived and was informed that the flight had been either delayed or cancelled, even though it had initially been scheduled for 6:00 pm on Thursday.
For my flight the following day, I was advised to return at two in the morning. That’s the predicament I’m currently facing.
Calls made to the airline’s Country Manager went unanswered, making it impossible to get an official statement.
Similar disruptions affecting Uganda Airlines A330-800Neo aircraft upon landing in mid-December 2025 left passengers stuck at the Lagos airport.
Passengers were evacuated from Lagos to their destinations via partner flights, such as RwandAir and Kenya Airways, after the airline took over a week to do so.
On Mondays and Thursdays, Uganda Airlines flies to Lagos twice a week. The route to Abuja is also serviced by the airline.
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