Some of you may have seen the foul up whereby a Nigerian was extradited back to Nigeria from UK, in a private jet at a cost of £100,000 and the plan failed as the aircraft was refused permission to land when it got there! I suppose some senior neddy at the Home Office will still get some trifling honour in the next List! They will have to try again, presumably at the same cost, again.
However, why can't one person, escorted by two people, fly in economy on a commercial flight? I suppose it might upset the other passengers and I can understand that. However, I was amazed to find a site where I could get a quote for this flight and here it is tinyurl.com/levmwee €56,000 so how does £100,000 happen I wonder?
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AFAIK deportations normally take place on commercial flights, with escorts if necessary. There are occasional stuff ups where the deportee is awkward and the Captain declines to carry him. You may remember there were headlines a few years ago when I guy being deported to Angola died on board an airliner at Heathrow after his guards were too heavy handed in restraining him.
Some mass deportations are by chartered airliner as that's cheaper than economy.
In this case there's a back story about the deportee who claims to be in mortal danger in Nigeria from the terror group Boku Haram. Was he also seriously ill?
I wonder whether the private jet farrago was a Civil Service process or one insisted on by a Minister wanting to look tough.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 3 Dec 13 at 07:23
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He was on hunger strike, and unfit to travel. Commercial airlines refused to carry him in that state, and there was medical staff required on the flight.
Regardless of if he should be here or not, it was very unedifying and does not reflect well on anyone involved.
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Nigerian Deportation - costs - Bromptonaut
