Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) disclosed on Wednesday that it has carried out registration and de-registration of 52 air planes as well as issued and renewed 115 air worthiness certificates between January and June this year.
Its Director General, Captain Muhtar Usman, made this known at the 2nd NCAA Interactive Forum with Aviation Agencies’ and Airlines’ Public Relations/Information Managers at the NCAA Annex where he called for a united approach in information dissemination devoid of disinformation and scare mongering.
Captain Usman said 20 air planes were registered for commercial air transport, while another 10 were registered for general operations. He further said 10 air planes were de-registered while another 12 were re-registered within the period under review.
He said the NCAA between January and June this year, issued 30 certificates of air worthiness while it renewed 85 air worthiness certificates.
On licensing, Usman said between January and June, the regulators also issued 36 pilot licenses, renewed 750 pilot medical and instrument and changed 23 foreign licenses, issued 242 cabin crew licences as well as renewed 206 cabin crew medical.
He stated that the CAA has issued aircraft maintenance engineering licenses to 68 engineers and renewed the licenses of 64 Air Traffic Controllers, 34 Flight Dispatchers and conducted examinations for 1, 537 professionals of various categories.
On issues of flight delays and cancellations, in the period under review, the NCAA boss said there were 16,880 delays in domestic operations and 2,443 for international operations with 253 flights cancelled domestically and 95 internationally.
On missing baggage, he said only 25 were delayed or missing on the domestic routes, while 17, 893 cases of delayed or missing baggage were reported on the international routes.