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"...No private Jet owner will be allowed to
surreptitiously convert his Jet for commercial purposes”.
The Ministry of Aviation has given a 90-day ultimatum to private jets owners to come up with their operational preference.
The ultimatum was given at the
conclusion of a meeting between the officials of the Ministry of
Aviation and the stakeholders in the General Aviation sector which
warehouses all the owners and operators of private jets.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of
Aviation, Mohammed Abass, gave the ultimatum after the meeting which
lasted for several hours at Abuja.
Just last week, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), threatened to clamp down on all owners of foreign registered privately operated aircraft
in the country whom it said have failed to regularise their
documentation in conformity with their operational status, adding that
they will face severe sanctions from the regulatory body.
The Director General of NCAA, Capt.
Muhtar Usman, said yesterday that he was ready to commence the regime of
stipulated sanctions on the erring operators.
According to him, the sanctions would
include grounding of operations, revocation of license and outright
seizure of aircraft forthwith.
The use of these operators’ aircraft for
commercial operations is at variance with the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Regulation, Nig.CARs 9.1.1.4[a][b] which is tantamount to gross
violation.
He noted as part of the unanimous
decisions at the meeting, the blanket ban upon the operators of foreign
registered privately operated aircraft in the country has been lifted
with conditions attached.
Abass noted that as earlier indicated,
the 90 days ultimatum is one of the conditions, during which it is
expected that all operators would have regularised their documentation
to specify their choice of operation.
“However, during this moratorium, it is
still subsisting that no private Jet owner will be allowed to
surreptitiously convert his Jet for commercial purposes”.
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