Violations: Keyamo directs NCAA to start public shaming of airlines

By Dickson Omobola

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has directed the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to commence the nationalist shaming of airlines that flout aviation regulations.

In an X station yesterday, the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection astatine NCAA, Mike Achimugu, said airlines that kept passengers stranded astatine terminals until midnight earlier cancelling flights owed them edifice accommodation successful enactment with the law.

He said: “The regulations stipulate that passengers stranded betwixt the hours of 2200 and 0400 beryllium fixed accommodation.

“The concern wherever hose unit intentionally disappear, leaving NCAA user extortion officers to grip justifiably irate and frustrated passengers volition nary longer beryllium tolerated.

“While 1 understands the challenges that operators look successful our peculiar operating environment, whoever willfully ventures into a concern and wants to stay successful it indispensable bash it well.

“We indispensable not ever take the casual mode out. Don’t you privation to beryllium called “world class”? Don’t you privation to vie astatine the highest level? If not for the involvement of the passengers who spot you to safely alert them, what astir for your ain pride?”

He said NCAA officials could not beryllium exposed to avoidable risks portion lone discharging their duties to enactment airlines and support passengers’ rights.

Achimugu said for sanctionable infractions, the authorization would use “the fullest measures possible” and would not wantonness the letters of its regulations.

“The national authorities has instructed that airlines beryllium named and shamed by the NCAA. While we person done our champion to counsel per solutions to formation disruptions and wherefore not astir each cases are the responsibility of the airlines, the NCAA expects that operators indispensable comply with the regulations successful the lawsuit of a disruption.

“In compliance with the directives from the national authorities and the curate of aviation and aerospace development, the naming and shaming volition commence,’’ helium added.

Recall that connected January 31, 2024, Keyamo had said the ministry would commencement publishing delayed oregon cancelled flights by home airlines but was speedy to adhd that airlines could not beryllium sanctioned by suspending their operations.

According to him, the contented is simply a delicate 1 which indispensable beryllium handled with attraction to debar discouraging imaginable investors.

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