LAGOS – Mr. Sam Adurogboye, the General Manager, Public Affairs, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has insisted that operations of the defunct Chanchangi Airlines remained grounded.
Adurogboye also said that everything about the carrier was now in the archive, adding that NCAA would continue to provide a robust regulation of the industry, while every infraction would be viewed seriously.
The remarks were made in a statement to aviation journalists in Lagos.
Adurogboye declared that the Air Operators’ Certificate (AOC) of the airline remained invalid and could not be used until the airline re-applies for the certificate, which would follow a new process.
He said that its decision on the airline was in accordance with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations (Nig.CARs) 2015, Part 9.1.1.12(a).
He said that for the AOC of a schedule operator like Chanchangi to remain valid, it must not seize operations for up to 30 days, while for non-scheduled, it can only remain valid for 90 days of non-operations.
Chanchangi Airline was suspended in 2013 by the former Director-General of NCAA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, when its operational aircraft nosedived to just one from a massive 11 at a time.
The statement said, “Except as provided in paragraph (b) of the section, no AOC holder may conduct a kind of operation for which it holds authority in its operations specifications unless the AOC holder has conducted that kind of operation within the preceding number of consecutive calendar days specified in this paragraph: For scheduled operations – 30 days.
“For non-scheduled operations, 90 days except that if the AOC holder had authority to conduct scheduled operations, and has conducted scheduled operations within the previous 30 days, this paragraph does not apply.
“In other words, it is not obtaining the AOC that is the most important, what defines an airline is the validity of its operational specifications.”
Adurogboye hinted that since the airline in question was not operational, there was no way it could be issued a new AOC, stressing that it got the AOC when it was operating a Boeing 737 for cargo operations.
He said that at the expiration of the mandatory number of days for initial operation as specified in NigCARs, the sanction was automatically activated and the airline had remained grounded ever since.
He posited that the B737 aircraft, which it used for cargo was leased by another airline and was at present unserviceable due to lack of maintenance.
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Source: Daily Independent
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