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Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has called for increase in Ticket Sales Charge (TSA) of what it collect to ten per cent from three per cent, adding that paucity of funds has prevented the agency from carrying out its duties as a responsible accident investigator. The Federal Government statutorily gives five per cent of total revenue made on tickets to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerian…

The global shift has now moved from Bilateral Air Services Agreements (BASA) to air liberalisation in Africa and 21 nations out of 44 countries are already catching the bug, WOLE SHADARE writes The debate This has been the argument. If every nation in the world had an air services agreement with every other nation, it would take about 12,500 bilateral agreements to blanket the globe. Now there are just over 4,000, but that is still…

The Managing Director of Tarzan Marine Enterprises, Mr. Ganiyu Balogun has accused the Lagos State Government through the state’s waterway authority of attempting to put the company’s N5 billion investments in jeopardy. Balogun, who spoke in Lagos accused the Lagos State Waterway Authority (LASWA) of persistent victimisation and harassment despite fulfilling all the agreed terms before commencing ferry services in the state in 2004. Balogun alleged that LASWA officials without recourse to the existing agreement…

Aviation security expert, Group Capt. John Ojikutu (rtd) has charged the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to draw up standards for Jet-A1 quality assurance, starting with the transportation vehicles type or profile; supply and trucking systems; storage and dispensing systems. He stated that at the moment, vehicles supplying aviation fuel, otherwise known as Jet-A1 are not sufficiently distinct from those supplying other petroleum products. Ojikutu disclosed that the consequence of all these development could result…

Performance of the African aviation industry is still lagging behind. A twin problem of costs and safety make air travel impossible to navigate. WOLE SHADARE writes It was predicted that over the period 2010-2015, Africa will be the third fastest-growing region in the world in terms of international traffic with an average growth rate of 6.1 per cent compared to the global average of 5.8 per cent and 7.9 per cent and 6.9 per cent…

Notwithstanding the harsh economic reality, the classification of Nigeria as high yield and mixed income route would continue to make foreign carriers flourish. Managing Director of a leading airline, who preferred anonymity, expressed the view. He said that the pulling out of Iberia from the route was not because it is not lucrative, explaining that the European airline hadn’t built the type of capacity created over the years by airlines such as British Airways, Air…

The Director-General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Tony Tyler said progress to achieve Single European Sky (SES) has been frustratingly slow. Tyler made the disclosure today at the European Aviation Club in Brussels, Belgium.  He noted that over those four years, failure to achieve SES has cost European competitiveness at least EUR 20 billion, lamenting that the environment has suffered many millions of tonnes of unnecessary carbon emissions.   His words, “We cannot…

WOLE SHADARE writes that it is often more convenient and faster to fly from a city in West Africa via London, Paris and back to a neighbouring city in West Africa, than to travel direct While many air markets between Africa and countries outside of Africa have been liberalised to a significant extent, most intra-African aviation markets remain largely closed due to restrictive bilateral agreements, which limit the growth and development of air services.  …

CAPTIONS: 1.L-R — DG CAPT MUHTAR USMAN AND COMMITTEE AG CHAIR, HON OSSAI NICHOLAS OSSAI. 2. L-R — DFA, MALLAM NUHU OZIGI, DG AND COMMITTEE AG CHAIR, HON OSSAI NICHOLAS OSSAI 3. GROUP PHOTO OF NCAA MGT AND THE HONS.  

The Ministerial Committee on Airport Security has affirmed its support for the commencement of regional operations at the Murtala Muhaammed Airport Two (MMA2), Lagos, which is being operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited. The Air Commodore H. Tukur-led committee, which was set up by the Federal Government to assess the security situation in all Nigerian airports, also expressed satisfaction with the level of security at the terminal.   The committee, which visited MMA2, last Thursday,…