Nigeria Air: Unveiled Aircraft Was Hired Ethiopia Flight – MD Reveals

Captain Dayo Olumide, the Managing Director of Nigeria Air, has confirmed that the unveiled Nigeria Aircraft launched by the immediate past Administration was a chattered aircraft from Ethiopia hired for a few days to showcase the logo to Nigerians and their shareholders.

This was made known by Captain Dayo when he appeared before the senate committee on Aviation to clarify on the controversies surrounding the Airline launched a day before the expiration of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari.

He added that the aircraft that came and left was a legitimate chartered flight which can be done by anyone who doesn’t have a license as long as you pay for it.

He noted that , for Nigeria to operate an aircraft , the aircraft must be Nigeria registered .

He added that, the particular aircraft that was unveiled was not registered and came into Nigeria with a few days clearance from Ethiopia and was returned after use.

He further stated that Nigeria only has airport license which is one of two licenses required for operating an airline and does not permit one to carry out commercial services operations

The MD further revealed that for Nigeria Air to get the needed license, Nigeria must have three aircrafts before the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority will give the country air license to fly and the three aircrafts must be Nigeria registered aircrafts.

According to him there are five phases or steps one goes through to get the license and Nigeria is still in phase one of the process.

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