Business Nigerian Airlines Unable To Return Aircraft Home After Maintenance Check Abroad

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It has been revealed that Nigerian airlines are unable to bring back their aircraft taken abroad for routine maintenance due to their inability to pay outrageous maintenance bills, which have tripled because of the low value of Naira.

According to Thisday, some aircraft have been in different maintenance facilities in Europe, South Africa, Middle East and the US and some of the airplanes had spent more than one year in these facilities.

It was reliably gathered that an airline abandoned about five of its planes in a maintenance hangar due to lack of funds to pay for the services and ferry them back in Nigeria.

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Sources at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) also confirmed to Thisday, adding that about 25 percent of existing aircraft owned by commercial airlines are on maintenance or AOG (aircraft on ground) either because they are no more airworthy or are due for maintenance.

A major challenge facing the airlines is that they generate revenues in Naira whereas they carry out maintenance and purchase major aircraft parts in foreign currency.

With the low value of the Naira, the airlines are paying more than twice the maintenance cost they used to pay to carry out C-Check on their aircraft.



Source: Thisday
 
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