Private jet owners in the country yesterday
commenced an indefinite strike over a
directive from the Nigerian Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA) announcing a new
price regime for all private airlines operating
in the country.
In a circular dated November 18, 2013, and
signed by the agency’s director of operations,
Mr J.C. Onyegiri, on behalf of the managing
director, all foreign registered aircraft
engaging in non-scheduled operations were
directed to pay the sum of $3,000 fees for
every departure except round trips without
changes in passenger manifest or return ferry.
Such fees, NAMA maintained, must be paid in
advance and before any departure.
The circular further directed all Nigerian
aircraft engaging in non-scheduled operations
to pay the sum of $2,500 as fees except round
trips without changes in passenger manifest, or
return ferry adding that such fees must be
paid in advance and before any departure.
According to the circular, the fees shall
include landing, parking, navigational and
terminal navigational charges and shall be in
respect of the first 10 hours after which
additional parking charges may apply.
Earlier, the tariff on private jet or charter
operations was not unified, and each agency
was expected to collect its own fees. For
instance, the Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria collects tariffs on landing and parking,
while the Nigerian Airspace Management
Agency (NAMA) charges its navigational fees
which is based on their operations.
According to industry sources, the FAAN
collects about $320 for overnight stay of the
jets at the airport and about $10, 000 monthly
on parking fees on a jet from those who do
not have private terminals. However, the fee
charged for landing depends on the aircraft’s
weight and the time it lands at an airport.
According to statistics obtained from FAAN’s
website, the rate varies for day landing, $
0.00909/kg; night landing, $0.01364/kg.
Parking for the first three hours does not
attract any fee. For the Gulfstream G450
aircraft, with landing weight of 29,935kg, the
airport authority would charge the owner
about $273 or its naira equivalent for day
landing, while it would take $408 for night
landing.
When the spokesman for NAMA Supo Atobatele
was contacted to speak on what the agency
collected from the private jet operators before
the introduction of the current tariff, he said
the current tariff was new and includes all the
charges like landing and parking, and
navigational fee and it has been introduced as
a means of increasing the revenue generation
of aviation agencies.
Efforts to get speak with Yakubu Dati,
spokesman for the aviation agencies, did not
yield result.
The new directive took effect from yesterday.

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ASUU welcomes you to the fold

keep the strike going till another union goes to strike cos this is a sign that ASUU is calling off the strike and they need someone to continue it,Thank God no be everybody day use private Jet

I should send this piece to Anderson Cooper to use in his "ridiculist" show.

Private jet owners on strike

Who is at the receiving end of their boycott?

Strike or no strike they must still pay hangar fees, right of way access and insurance premiums, luxury tax, property tax, license fees.

Who cares that they are on strike??

Oh my GOD!!