THE managing director of Finchglow Group, Mr Bankole Bernard has emphasised the importance of policy implementation to airlines and travel agencies saying this can never be overemphasised, hence must be on a continuous basis.
Bankole cited many policies that had been formed but wondered how well they have been implemented.
While asking how the policies had reflected government’s determination not to lower her guard as a means of preventing the spread of the pandemic on the industry and lives of the people involved, Bankole declared “I think we have to shift focus to the impact over the years. As I sat there, I realised that the Act that governs Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) was enacted in 1964, whereas all others had been reviewed lately. How come the one that affects industry personnel has been abandoned for decades?
“It shows that we pay very little attention to the workforce in the industry and that explains why we more often export that aspect of the aviation business. We need to go back to the drawing board and make sure that the personnel are well trained.
As at today, we only have 20 accredited training organisations in Nigeria, to serve a population of over 200 million people. It is not that people are not interested, but there are no enabling laws to attract investors into this critical aspect of the aviation industry. I think we need to pay more attention to issues that affect human factors in the industry.”
Speaking on the cooperation between regulator and operators, at a conference organized by aviation journalists titled: Nigeria’s Aviation Industry: Management, Policy and Regulation in Lagos, the Finchglow Group Boss said, to be a meaningful collaboration between the two key players, we need to have a central data system. With that I can rely on information coming from one agency to another. But when you look at it, we have a disintegrated system as it were. Until we integrate the system to a point that we all know that the information that I am getting is factual, then we will not move forward.
“We are talking about codesharing and interlining among the airlines, how do you think that will be possible when they cannot even rely on information that is available? The information available are coming from different sources. The earlier we have a central data system the better for us, agencies, captains for the industry and even the reporters that will want to rely on the data that they have gotten.”
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