Nigeria’s Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has issued guidelines to restart domestic flight operations in the country following the ease of the lockdown announced by the Federal Government.
The NCAA in a circular to all airline operators in the industry, signed by the Director General, Captain Musa Nuhu, said it is important to start the process of getting the industry ready for an organised, safe, secure and efficient flight operations when the nation’s airspace is reopened for business.
He said: “The Federal Government on Monday 27th of April 2020 announced he gradual phasing and controlled easing of the country’s lockdown especially in Ogun, Lagos and Abuja from 3th May 2020. Following this announcement, it is important for the Civil Aviation Authority to start the process of getting the industry ready for an organised, safe, secure and efficient restart of flight operations when the nation’s airspace is reopened for business.
“To this end, in addition to several All Operators Letters (AOLs) issued by NCAA containing protocols covering several functions and sectors of the industry during the Covid-19 lockdown, it has become imperative that all stakeholders in the Aviation industry are provided relevant guidelines and protocols that shall be implemented to ensure an organised, safe, secure and efficient normalization of the industry operations for the post COVID-19 lockdown.
“Therefore, the Authority is issuing an advisory circular with reference number NCAA-AC-FSG-001 with appendixes A, B and C providing guidelines and protocols to assist and guide all AOC holders develop and implement their respective restart plans post covid-19 lockdown.
Action required
“All AOC holders are required to review, demonstrate and or submit evidence of compliance with the provision of Advisory circular NCAA-AC-FSG-001, downloaded from www.ncaa.gov.ng or request for it by email to info@ncaa.gov.ng and its associated appendices before resumption of flight operations.
“All AOC holders will be required to notify the authority of their intention to resume operations and will make themselves available to the authority for a post Covid-19 restart plan assessment.
“Upon satisfactory Post Covid-19 restart plan assessment by the authority the AOC holders will be granted approval to resume operations by the director general.”
