The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is contemplating totally different incentives and attainable concessions together with lower in touchdown and parking charges to attract buyers to smaller airports throughout the nation.
FAAN’s Managing Director, Olubunmi Kuku who spoke on Wednesday on the ongoing airport enterprise summit and expo 2024 in Lagos, famous that one of many methods into account is the discount of touchdown and parking charges at smaller airports.
This initiative, in keeping with Kuku, goals to encourage airways to fly into these airports or use them as their house base, thereby making them extra economically and commercially viable.
“The congestion at Lagos airport has made it eminent to take a look at driving house base to different airports and rising markets,” Kuku stated.
She stated the trade wants extra investments, stressing that the federal government can not present what’s going to maintain the trade however can solely present an enabling atmosphere.
“What I name on you for is, for us collectively, to discover the non-public sector mannequin, the non-public sector fashions that truly work and put in authorized entity frameworks that enable these fashions to favour and defend FAAN,” she added.
The MD acknowledged the challenges native airways encounter, together with points associated to fleet measurement, monetary constraints, insurance coverage, and international trade, including that these challenges must be thought-about.
Kuku stated some airports are working under capability, particularly Minna airport, which has 122 workers members however is at the moment not operational.
Talking on service degree agreements (SLAs), Kuku stated whereas the authority is able to signal SLAs, the standard of service will likely be critically assessed with a baseline in thoughts.
SLA is a contractual settlement between a buyer and a service supplier on what companies the latter will present and the service requirements the supplier is obligated to fulfill.
“It’s also crucial that we actually look via service high quality and I do know I’ve heard everybody speak about SLAs and when FAAN goes to signal one.
“I stand earlier than you right here at the moment to say we’re able to signal a SLA. Nevertheless, we are going to signal that SLA with a baseline in thoughts, and I agree that the SLAs place us for progress which might be achievable.
“I additionally need to shortly state that the place public-private partnerships have had plenty of progress, that isn’t the case, however that’s the place public-private partnerships have had vital success tales,” She stated.
The MD, nevertheless, stated the implementation of those methods would require approvals from the federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Growth.
Evaluating the infrastructure in Nigeria to its counterparts, she stated the trade is barely scratching the floor, therefore, the necessity to leverage know-how and innovation.
Kuku praised the organizer of the summit, Fortune Idu for assembling a variety of stakeholders, corresponding to airport regulatory businesses, safety businesses, unions, and airport managers.
