Nigeria's private jet owners begin strike over new aviation charges:
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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