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NIGERIA’S leading aviation ground handling companies; Aviation Handling Services (AHS),Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (Nahco Aviance) and the Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) Plc, have been urged to consider price adjustment, instead of price increase, in order to survive the effects of the current pandemic, Covid-19.
A former Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, made the call recently during a webinar organized by the Association of Aviation Ground Handlers (AGHAN).
The webinar titled, ‘The Impact of COVID -19 on the Nigerian Aviation Ground Handling Industry: Safety, Rates, Regulation’ was attended by key players in the sector.
Demuren, who was one of the panelists, emphasized that foreign airlines should pay the dollar equivalent for ground handling services rendered to it in order to ensure the survival of the aviation ground handling companies.
In his opening remarks, Chairman of AGHAN, Mr. Olaniyi Adigun, who is also the Executive Director, Sales and Marketing of SAHCO Plc, explained that AGHAN was created to represent, advocate policies and regulation for the overall interest of the members of the association. He stated further that the creation of AGHAN would foster an enabling environment to build and reach a consensus on critical aviation ground handling matters.
On his part, the Commissioner/Chief Executive Officer of the Accident Investigation Bureau of Nigeria (AIB), Engineer Akin Olateru, enjoined AGHAN to stop the price war even as he called for collaboration among the ground handlers to improve their service delivery to airlines and other clients.
In her remarks, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NAHCO, Mrs Olatokunbo Fagbemi, called on all stakeholders to work together for the survival of the sector saying: ”the aviation industry is the worst hit by the pandemic, and by extension, the ground handling companies.”
On his part, the Managing Director/ CEO of SAHCO Plc, Mr. Basil Agboarumi, while describing the sector as one, enjoined ground handlers to be united just like the airlines.
His words: “For ground handlers to provide safe, speedy and efficient services there is need for the right pricing. It is wrong for Nigeria to charge Naira to service a foreign airline; the time has come for right pricing so that ground handlers can survive’’.
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