Aligbe: Nigeria Airways liquidation, national carrier absence impact manpower competence in aviation

Aligbe: Nigeria Airways liquidation, national carrier absence impact manpower competence in aviation

The Chief Executive Officer of Belujane Konsult, Chris Aligbe said the absence of a national carrier for the country for over two decades has impacted technical competence and managerial ability and the dearth of technical competence of the country’s entire aviation value chain. Since the liquidation of Nigeria Airways, manpower development of the country’s aviation has ebbed leading to a dearth of technical know-how as the sector is witnessing the erosion of critical manpower. Aligbe…

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Aligbe: Nigeria big enough to harness global air travel potential

Aligbe: Nigeria big enough to harness global air travel potential

The Chief Executive of Belujane Konsult, Mr Chris Aligbe, said Nigeria is big enough to have three big and formidable airlines that can be either privately owned or government-backed carriers to harness air travel potentials for the country. He noted that the country needs a national flag carrier to strengthen Lagos or Abuja as a hub, stressing that no private airlines have ever built a hub. Aligbe He cited countries in Africa like Ethiopian Airlines,…

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Nigeria airspace safe despite dropped ICAO points, says Aligbe

Nigeria airspace safe despite dropped ICAO points, says Aligbe

Chief Executive Officer of Belujane Consult, Mr. Chris Azu Aligbe said the 71% score recorded by Nigeria in last year’s  Universal Security Audit Programme-Continuous Monitoring Approach (USAP-CMA) conducted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is not an indication that the country’s airspace is unsafe.  Speaking to Aviation Metric at the weekend, Aligbe stated that rather than waste energy on an audit conducted last year, he called on all the agencies to ensure that those gaps noticed during…

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Aligbe: Point-to-point operations not profitable for airlines

Aligbe: Point-to-point operations not profitable for airlines

…Urges carriers to interline to survive   Chief Executive Officer of Belujane Consult, Chris Aligbe said it would be very difficult for any airline to be successful with point-to-point operations stressing that for Nigerian carriers to be profitable, they would need to interline or go into codeshare agreements that would help them distribute their passengers beyond points beyond. Aligbe, while speaking on Channels Television’s Business Update on Wednesday monitored by Aviation Metric explained that Nigerian carriers like the…

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