Aviation Stakeholders Frown At Unhealthy Rivalry Over Revenue Sources, Industry Growth
“The perceived unhealthy rivalry among stakeholders on revenue sources and industry growth is needless.”
This was part of the stakeholder resolutions in a communiqué issued at the end of the 30th Annual Conference of League of Airport & Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) held on September 10, 2026 at Providence Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, as they spared a thought for the conditions attached to personnel choice of unionization.
After intense deliberations on the theme of the conference, participants resolved that to avoid a recurrence of high airlines’ mortality rate, there is need for a review of the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge (TSC), collected from airlines and in its place, they canvassed unit cost per flight.
They also agreed that to mitigate the effects of flight delays, there should be proper dissemination of information to passengers early enough to starve off confusion at the airport.
They canvassed a review of government’s huge revenue expectations from airlines and rather push for more practical ways for service cost recovery and in anticipation of the surge in airlines’ fleet size, there is a needful massive investment in airport infrastructure.
They canvassed enthronement of consistent policies to consolidate the sector’s growth and noted that considering the huge market potential of the country, there is need to galvanize the required framework.
They advocated the need for the application of practical experience in the approach to the industry’s sustenance for economic development and proposed the adoption of KPIs in arriving at charges and taxes issued to airlines by government agencies.
Conference equally noted with concerns, the multiplicity of charges, which require verification so as not to discourage private investment into the sector, adding that “appropriate charges and taxes from agencies to operators in pursuant of revenue should, if it will continue, go beyond scheduled commercial sales airlines and be extended to other service providers.
Driving sustainability for the air travel industry over the years has remained a never ending debate, straddling between quick fixes, long term intervention and forward-looking strategies.
The desire to consolidate this all important target for the aviation ecosystem has stretched the latitude of aviation strategists, drawing the intersection between balancing government revenue demand with the sector’s growth.
Participants at the conference include representatives of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), representatives of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), aviation allied sector operators, all the aviation agencies and other aviation stakeholders
