The Director General of the NCAA, Capt. Musa Nuhu, yesterday warned that the aviation watchdog would not hesitate to suspend the certificates of defaulting airline operators.

Capt. Nuhu gave the warning in Lagos while addressing a meeting with ground handlers and members of the Airline Operators of Nigeria. Information Guide Nigeria

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In his words: “The airlines owe FAAN landing and parking charges, while they are also hugely indebted to NAMA in terminal and navigational charges. If the debts owed to the agencies were not paid back immediately the aviation organisations may collapse very soon.”

“NCAA relies 100 per cent on its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The 5 per cent TSC paid by passengers is 85 per cent of NCAA revenue, while the other 15 per cent comes from airlines as payment for services provided and they are all cost recovery. We don’t also impose any excess baggage charge on the airlines. I wonder where the operators saw this.

“The airlines have intentionally refused to pay the debts owed us despite the fact that they have collected such from the passengers. The airlines collect money and refuse to transmute such to the right authorities. AON wants us to provide services for free for them. What the airlines are trying to do is to defunct NCAA. You have refused to give us our legitimate money. The fees we are charging the airlines are just cost recovery and we are actually subsidising the airlines.” jamb results