Nigeria’s aviation regulator, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has read out a riot act to local airline operators in the country over N19Billion in debts.
In a briefing in Lagos with members of the Airline Operators of Nigeria and ground handlers, Director General of NCAA Captain Musa Nuhu, on Tuesday, threatened that the aviation regulator will not hesitate to suspend the Certificates of Air Operator’s defaulting airlines.
The regulator said any indebted operator must enter into a Memorandum of Understanding for payment, noting that any airline that defaults three times will have its AOC suspended.
Nuhu further explained that airline operators are painting government agencies black over their current woes, yet domestic airlines have collected over N19 billion and did not remit to the NCAA for onward distribution Nuhu also hinted that the NCAA and other agencies are set to review agency charges , for the first time in 13 years.
