•Urges local operators to compete on foreign routes
By Albert Akota
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has said that the fall of the Naira to the Dollar may affect prices of local air tickets.
Disclosing this to Journalists Friday in Abuja at the sidelines of the 10th edition of the Aviation Workers’ Week & Award, the miniater said all local carriers needed to do more to be competitive across foreign routes, adding that government is doing all it can to “force down prices.
“We’ll see what happens. I don’t want to predict gloom or doom as the case may be.
“We need to go out of the country to get aircraft for our local operators that they can use to compete in those routes that our BASA have allowed us to compete in,” he said.
“For example, if British Airways has 14 slots coming into Nigeria every week, we should have our local airlines being able to reciprocate 14 slots going in the UK weekly,” he added.
In his remarks, Chairman of the Joint Consultative and Negotiation Council, JCNC of the Aviation Ministry, Comrade Hector Nnadi, assured of workers’ full support towards achieving the Aviation Road Map.
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