AVIATION MEGAFORCE

        The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for governments to facilitate the growth of global connectivity by avoiding creeping re-regulation, maintaining the integrity of global standards, and addressing a capacity crisis. The call came in the IATA Director General’s Report on the Air Transport Industry at the 74th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit. "On aviation’s core mission to deliver safe, secure, accessible and sustainable connectivity, the state of our industry is strong and getting stronger. And with "normal" levels of profitability we are spreading aviation’s benefits even more widely. But there are challenges. Smarter regulation needs to counter the trend of creeping re-regulation. Global standards must be maintained by the states that agreed them. And we need to find efficient solutions to the looming capacity crisis," said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO. Re-Regulatio

    As part of its facility upgrade drive, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA),has finally resolved  to install Category III A - Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at Lagos and Abuja international airports. ICAO and FAA  definition : ‘’A category III A approach, is a precision instrument approach and landing with no decision height lower than 100ft(30m) and  a runway  visual range not less than 700ft (200m)’’. The managing director of the agency, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, who disclosed this to the media, said the installation of these landing aids at the two international airports would enhance safety and ease flight operations during inclement weather. The MD, had during an interview with ATQ explained the necessary logistics that would be required before installing such navaids, saying that there would be need for uninterrupted power supply, perimeter fencing on the signals propagated by these aids, onboard equipment and training of the pilot among other things.     Akinkuo

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) wishes to advise the public and all aviation stakeholders to disregard the misguided attempt to discredit statistical data emanating from the Authority. We wish to state that NCAA stands by its statistics. The figures are verifiable and are harmonized by all relevant aviation parastatals, government agencies and handling companies. It is therefore important for the public to be aware that there is a disparity between NCAAs data collection basis and FAANs. In addition, 5% Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) is not based on the total tickets sold but only on flown tickets. On the other hand, FAAN computes its Passenger Service Charge (PSC) on all categories of passengers flying through the airport. Furthermore, 5% TSC applies to all tickets originating from Nigeria with the exclusion of Diplomats, Tickets sold offshore, infants tickets and staff tickets. These are all classified as non-taxable tickets. Please note that tickets sold by National As