Listen Up: A New developments is on the air agian as place a kinda ban on private jet owners. the new reviewed of National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) 2013 has sanctioned jet owners against carrying friends and business associates. I think this sound hilarious?
The NCAP 2013 states that companies with private jets are permitted to carry only employees or members of the Board of Directors while individuals with private jets can only carry members of their family, excluding friends and business associates.
While the new policy, in part, reads:
“For private aircraft owned or leased by individuals, only the family members of the owner/lessee of the aircraft will be permitted on board as passengers” More to read after the cut
“For private aircraft owned or leased by companies or corporate entities, only the employees and members of the Board of Directors of the company will be permitted on board as passengers.”
Passengers on board will also be subjected to an air traffic control clearance.
“For aircraft belonging to non-scheduled or scheduled operators, only the employees and members of the Board of Directors of the company or the corporation may be permitted on board as passengers; all operators will declare the identities of all passengers on non-revenue charter flights in the appropriate general declaration forms prior to obtaining ATC clearance.”
“Nigerian carriers operating revenue passenger charter flights will be required to have a current non-scheduled or scheduled operator permit with operations manual that contains flight duty time limitations, which will be strictly monitored on regular basis.”
Business owners and corporations sometimes have private jets that make logistics easier for them. Some business moguls in Nigeria with private jets include Africa richest man, Aliko Dangote, Global Fleets’ Jimoh Ibahim, Globacom CEO, Mike Adenuga and Chief Harry Akande.
The reviewed policy tagged “The Revised National Civil Aviation Policy 2013” (NCAP)” which took about a year to review was released on Friday to bring new and sustainable regulatory structures into the industry for security and safety of airline passengers and crew.
The new policy covers safety programme; accident investigation and prevention, monitoring and control of general aviation; introduction of an effective search and rescue mechanism as well as the development of an effective and sustainable economic regulatory framework.
Nigeria aviation Minister, Stella Oduah said the aviation policy was last reviewed 12 years ago.
The revised NCAP 2013, according the minister is in line with section 769 (1) of the Civil Aviation Act 2006 and consists of 10 critical parts of the aviation industry, which “would be reviewed every five years or when necessary.”
In line with the newly reviewed policy, the Minister has also directed that all foreign-registered private jets will not be allowed to stay in the country beyond 15 days. Also, foreign-registered jets on special mission would only be allowed to stay for only 60 days, following special approval from the office of the minister.
Part VII of the NCAP 2013 reads: “Retention of foreign registered aircraft in Nigeria will not be permitted beyond a period of 15 days from date of entry. However, the Minister of Aviation may, in certain circumstances, grant the extension of this period for up to 60 days.”
According to the former Managing Director of Aerocontractors Airlines, Captain Akin George, over 70 percent of private jets in the country carry foreign registration. Thus, the stringent condition might affect the movement of business moguls whose private jets currently carry registration of countries like the United States, United Kingdom and South Africa among others.
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