Chinedu Eze
Experts in the aviation industry have called on the government to henceforth initiate and implement policies to make foreign carriers partner local operators.
The experts insisted that such has been the practice in many countries, saying that governments do so to save indigenous carriers, encourage local skills development and create employment.
The experts who spoke at the League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) 23rd Annual Conference held in Lagos Wednesday, said it would be the way government could break the air transport market that is fully dominated by foreign carriers.
The Chairman of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, in his speech noted that the aviation industry was indispensable to the socio-economic development of any country and that Nigeria was not an exception. He regretted the liquidation of the Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL).
Bankole,…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
