The Chief Operating Officer of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, Herbert Odika, in this interview, says high air fares charged by domestic airlines are discouraging travellers. Chinedu Eze brings the excerptsI would say they are growing, but their pricing structure is chasing people away from air travel locally. In recent times, there is hike in prices.
As an aviation handling company, you work with airport facilities, how do you collaborate with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ? It is said that the services of aviation handling companies are under-charged in Nigeria in relative terms. This is because of competition between the major handling companies, NAHCO and Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc. . How does this affect your revenue?
There has been a little improvement. This improvement could be projected to be 15 in the sense that the number of times that the belt has shut down completely has reduced in recent times; however, the belt is very sensitive. You cannot put bags on the belt the way you would normally want the bag to go on the belt. That is why you would come at the check in area you see bags littered around. This should not be the case.