The Managing Director and CEO of Nigeria’s oldest carrier, Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi has said that domestic airlines should stop funding aviation parastatals to enable them have funds to boost their operation and ensure their survival and profitability. Sanusi said multiple taxation, charges including passenger service charge, terminal charge, landing and parking, overflying charge, […]
*Says no interference in its regulatory autonomyChinedu Eze The Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu, has disclosed that it is difficult for Nigerian airlines to make a profit because of their difficult operating environment where access to funding is very challenging. The NCAA boss has also debunked claims in […]
The Single Africa Air Transport Market has constituted new obstacle to flight operations to West and Central Africa by Nigerian airlines due to unequal charges and taxes. Chinedu Eze spoke to experts who posit ways Nigerian carriers can still operate profitably in the region. Some years ago Nigerian airlines had sustained air traffic in the […]
Some stakeholders in the aviation industry have said that harsh operating environment, including disincentive government policies, high cost of doing business and scarcity of aviation fuel are discouraging investors from the sector. In the past four years there have been more commercial airlines that went under than the ones that came in and in the last two years it is only Air Peace […]
Last week Medview Airline started flights on the West coast routes, from Accra via Monrovia to Freetown. During its inaugural flight, the airline’s CEO, AlhajiMuneer Bankole spoke on the need for the federal government to support domestic airlines because they project the image of the country. What is the cost implication of this route development? The advantage of flying this route is that the entire countries after Nigeria do […]
