The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has threatened to ground the operations of domestic airlines over their failure to pay their charges which have accumulated to over N5 billion.
Such action will have adverse implication on the socio-economic activities of the country as no flight belonging to the indebted airlines will be given the start-up to take off.
The agency said before it introduced the pay-as-you-go system, the airlines have owed the debt and refused to pay despite entreaties and cajolings.
The agency also said it was willing to spread the debts to be paid at instalment by the airlines which were invited by NAMA in the past to structure the payment pattern the way it suited them but almost all the airlines failed to honour the invitation.
Inside source from the agency said it had written the airlines seven times inviting them for debt reconciliation but the request was rebuffed and when a meeting was organised, only very few attended.
WHAT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE:
- The agency also said it was willing to spread the debts to be paid at instalment by the airlines which were invited by NAMA in the past to structure the payment pattern the way it suited them but almost all the airlines failed to honour the invitation.
- Such action will have adverse implication on the socio-economic activities of the country as no flight belonging to the indebted airlines will be given the start-up to take off.
- The agency said before it introduced the pay-as-you-go system, the airlines have owed the debt and refused to pay despite entreaties and cajolings.
