The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has stated that the licences of all the airlines indebted to the agency will be suspended at the expiration of the deadline.
The NCAA stressed that the airlines must enter an Memorandum of Understanding on how they will pay their debts in the next 30 days from August 30, 2022.
NCAA accused the Nigerian local airlines of deliberate attempt to cripple its operations, noting that the local airlines are owing it over N19billion and $7.6million on ticket charges they had collected from passengers but have refused to remit to the authorities.
The NCAA Director General, Capt. Musa Nuhu who made this known on Tuesday in Abuja in a stakeholders’ meeting with the airlines and the aviation agencies, explained that the situation was crippling its finances and pitching the authorities against the Federal Government.
He asserted that rather than the airlines to think creatively to grow the businesses and the industry, they targeted the NCAA with campaign of calumny and falsehoods.
“All airlines indebted to the NCAA must enter an MoU on how they will pay their debts in the next 30 days from August 30th, 2022 or their licences will suspended at the expiration of the deadline.
“Since 2009, the NCAA had not reviewed its services, yet local airlines refused to pay, adding that NCAA charges were far lower than Ghana’s.
“The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) are also being owed over N5 billion and N19 billion respectively by the same Nigerian registered airlines,” he added.
