AON maintains stand against assigning multiple destinations to foreign airlines
Even though that the President of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Susan Akporiaye, has said that foreign airlines are presently not contending with domestic operators over multiple destinations as local operators have been unable to connect all the states to major airports, the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), still says its an action against the spirit of local content development.
Speaking earlier at the inaugural launch of flight operations by Qatar Airways in Kano, Akporiaye had argued that rather than complain about the Federal Government’s decision to assign multiple destinations to foreign airlines, domestic operators should work with the international airlines to know their timing, so that they can use that same timing to plan out movements from other states to the major airports.
AON recently berated the Federal Government for assigning multiple destinations to foreign airlines, saying that such an action is detrimental to the local airlines that are still contending with the difficult business environment. But Akporiaye dismissed such concerns, saying that the assigning of multiple destinations to foreign airlines does not impede the operations of domestic operators as most of them are yet to cover and connect many domestic routes to the regional airports.
