The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has said that data gathering and distribution is one of the major hiccups affecting the growth and stability of the country’s aviation industry.
The sector’s apex regulatory body, however, said it took responsibility for this but assured that some improvement would soon be made.
Mr. Michael Achimugu, the Director, of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, NCAA, stated this recently at the NCAA Consumer Protection National Stakeholders Summit in Lagos with the theme: ‘Achieving Increased Adoption of Digital Technology in Air Travel Customer Complaint Management: The Regulatory Perspective.’
Achimugu explained that most of the agencies and organizations, including airlines in the sector, churn out inaccurate data to the public without due diligence.
According to him, the NCAA was supposed to be the custodian of industry data information. He emphasized that the agency would address the issue very soon.
He said: “We take responsibility for this. We are implementing our method of data collection. We will be more efficient. There is a data problem in the NCAA. There are discrepancies in data collation in the aviation industry and among the airlines. When you go to different organizations, you will get different data from them, including the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency and others.”
Daily Independent exclusively reported recently that 48 percent of flights on the 13 domestic airlines were delayed in the first half of 2024, while an additional 2 percent were canceled within the period.
In all, the domestic airlines had a combined 19,250 flight delays, while 696 of their 35,398 flights were outrightly canceled.
Source: Independent
