The public hearing is long overdue; I really look forward to it, though with trepidation.
Will the outcome change the present situation considering past public hearing whose outcome has changed nothing. Also, most of the agreements are government to government which usually have a long gestation period and require some diplomatic hurdles before it can be reversed.
Then you have the disunited cartel, called AON, who may come up with different positions just like they did the last time, when they purposely omitted the fly Nigeria act because they felt Mr. A’s airline will be the only beneficiary.
If you look at the checking in counters at the international gateways of Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt and Kano our carriers are tucked at the corners or completely absent compared to the foreign carriers who have taken vantage positions in our own country.
Take a cursory look at cities such as Jo’burg, Nairobi, Addis-Ababa, Cairo, Tripoli you can easily feel the ambience of the home carriers, why are we different?
We need to seat down have a re-think because the BASA fund that is exciting us and surely tripping the head of aviation agencies is pittance when compared with the benefits that will accrue to the country if we empower our carriers and our manpower
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