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July 10, 2019
The Senate on Wednesday passed resolutions toprotect indigenous airlines from going into extinction due to multipledesignations and multiple frequencies granted foreign airlines in Nigeria.
The resolution followed a motion entitled “UnfairCompetition and Urgent Need to Protect Nigeria’s Indigenous Airlines fromExtinction” sponsored by Ifeanyi Ubah and 20 others.
Presenting the motion at plenary, Ubah decried thelicence given to some foreign airlines to operate multiple routes withinNigeria.
He said Ethiopia airline now operates in five citiesof Enugu, Kano, Kaduna, Abuja and Lagos, while Turkish airline operates in fourcities, namely Abuja, Kano, Lagos and Port Harcourt.
He said Emirate airline also operates two flightsdaily into Lagos and one to Abuja.
Lending his voice to the motion, Thompson Sekibosaid the indigenous airlines do not have the capacity to provide all theservices provided by foreign airlines.
Consequently, the senate summoned the PermanentSecretary of the Ministry of Transport, Director General of Nigerian CivilAviation Authority and the Managing Director of Federal Airports Authority.