The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA) yesterday said foreign and domestic airlines operating in the
country sold N10.5 billion tickets to passengers between January and
July, this year.
Its director-general, Capt. Usman
Muhtar, who spoke at the 21st Annual Seminar of the League of Airport
and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) in Lagos, said the total volume of
passengers airlifted within the period under review by domestic
operators was 6,061,740.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the theme of the seminar was: Achieving a Win-Win Aviation Sector in Nigeria.
Muhtar said: “From January to July this
year, the total amount of tickets sold on the domestic routes was
N2,352,011,595, while the international operators sold N8,176,919,415,
within the same period.
“The total volume of passengers
airlifted from January to July 2015 by domestic operators was 6,061,740
passengers while their foreign counterpart freighted 2,341,748 within
similar period.
“It is instructive to note that this
result will have been better but for the transition period and elections
which always restrict wide scale travel.”
Represented by the Director of
Operations and Training, Capt. Sidi Abdullahi, Muhtar said Nigeria’s air
transport sector witnessed increasing growth in recent years.
He said: “Several foreign airlines are
finding Nigeria an investor’s basket. A total number of 15 countries
have so far indicated their preparedness to sign Bilateral Air Service
Agreement (BASA) with our country.”
According to him, 13 others are on the threshold waiting for renegotiation of their existing BASAs, he said.
Credit: The Nation
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