TopBrass President, Roland Iyayi writes for Woleshadarenews
I am fully persuaded that this is the right time to encourage decision makers at all levels, notably the Minister of Aviation, Ministry of Aviation, Managing Directors/Chief Executive Officers of all the aviation agencies, aviation ground handling companies, airline operators, concessionaires and other stakeholders who are at the receiving end of the devastating effects of COVID-19 to see it as great opportunity to shape their destiny.
COVID-19 will be over or at best be reduced to the barest minimum. It is time for great works. It is time to evaluate the effects of the rains that have been beating the sector since 1999.
Now is the time to listen to some voices of wisdom, which an ancient word says is the principal thing. That word says if you are blessed with wisdom, that power (of wisdom) will promote you in any office you occupy and that same power from above will decorate you ‘with ornament of grace’.
For the first time in world history, about 90 per cent of the world’s citizens have been restricted from travelling, either to return home or to destinations of choice. Without a doubt, the most affected in travel and tourism is the aviation industry.
An estimated 25 million aviation jobs and 100 million travel and tourism jobs across the globe are at risk. That is not all; the growth recorded in the industry in the last seven years would potentially be lost across the world.
Coming back home, in Nigeria most of the local airlines have either forced their workers to embark on unpaid leave, slashed salaries or dismissed their work force. The aviation agencies are cash starved with many of them tinkering with the idea of slashing workers’ salaries.
Disruption of global economies by COVID-19 is comparable to The Great Depression of 1930’s. This is how COVID-19 has brought the global and Nigerian aviation to a standstill.
We can begin the process of rebuilding our broken aviation industry. How we do it, would suggest how we quickly want the industry to rebound post COVID-19.
From Sunday May 24, 2020, we at Woleshadarenew will begin the serialization of a well researched paper by President, TopBrass Aviation Limited and a former Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Roland Iyayi titled, “COVID-19 Exposes The Brittle Backbone Of The Nigerian Aviation Industry”.
The Man Roland Iyayi
Iyayi is a focused, passionate, people-centric and highly-driven consummate complete aviation professional dedicated to continuous process improvement in the face of rapidly evolving and changing world markets.
He is extremely results-oriented and proactive in addressing and resolving problems with a well-rounded industry-wide knowledge base.
Roland in addition to having led and managed teams of professionals that have undertaken and been pivotal on a few very important and successful national projects, from training and restructuring, to designing and implementing programs for several government agencies, also was responsible for the start-up operations of several notable domestic and regional airlines in West Africa.
Yours Sincerely,
WOLE SHADARE,
Publisher, Woleshadarenews
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