Chairman of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema has called on the president -elect Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps aimed at improving the operating environment for domestic carriers in the country.
Specifically, Onyema said the best policy the incoming government can put in place is to influence a single digit interest rate in loans to be accessed by domestic airlines from Nigerian commercial banks.
Such low interest credit window, he maintained, is better than mere intervention packages to domestic carriers that may not entirely address the legion of challenges besetting the sector.
While congratulating General Buhari on his well-deserved victory, which he described as a study in perseverance, Onyema said there an urgent to tackle to the hiccups in the sector in order to move the industry forward.
Onyema also canvassed the harmonisation of charges by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.
He said most aviation agencies are frustrating efforts by domestic carriers to access land through lease option at airports nationwide , saying that the agencies not only delay in considering approval they also charge arbitrary fees .