Nigerian govt suspends services to Air Peace, Ibom Air, nine others

The Federal Government, done the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has ordered its directorates to suspend services to 11 home airlines.

The NCAA besides placed them connected its updated “No-Pay-No-Service” database implicit unpaid statutory charges owed to the regulator.

An interior memo by the agency’s Director of Finance and Accounts, Olufemi Odukoya, ordered each departments to withhold regulatory and administrative services from the affected operators until they wide their outstanding debts oregon hold connected repayment plans.

According to the agency, astatine the centre of the quality are the 5 per cent Ticket Sales Charge and Cargo Sales Charge, funds collected by airlines connected behalf of the NCAA to enactment information oversight, unit grooming and economical regularisation wrong the aviation sector.

The memo besides directed each directorates to suspend services to the affected airlines pending fiscal clearance from the Directorate of Finance and Accounts.

The memo was circulated crossed the authority’s determination offices and copied to the Director-General of Civil Aviation and different elder officials.

According to the memo, airlines affected by the directive see “Air Peace Limited, Ibom Air Limited, Arik Air Limited, United Nigeria Airlines, Umza Air, NG Eagle, Max Air Li...