Director General Civil Aviation ( DGCA) Captain Musa Nuhu has agreed with airlines over the released data on delays, cancellations, baggage losses and other passenger and traffic figures saying that reasons for delays be categorized to help airlines improve.
Chairman Air Peace, Barrister Allen Onyema who spoke on the NCAA’s recently released figures on delays and cancellations at the Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative ( ASRTI) Brunch Business Meeting on Tuesday, said airlines being blamed for poor performances are unfair because the CAA only provided data without breakdowns.
He described it as unfair and said there were other multiple factors beyond airlines that cause cancellations which should be highlighted instead of making it look like the airlines’ fault entirely.
Captain Nuhu who agreed with this position while speaking to reporters yesterday said there were many other factors that caused delays and highlighting them is also a means of strengthening the industry to do a better job at improving on delays.
He said, “When you say delays and there are many reasons for delays it is only fair and proper for everybody to give reasons for delays. What percentage of delays was caused by infrastructure? What amount of delay was caused by weather? What delays were caused by the airlines themselves, I think this is fair enough.
“I think the different reasons for the delays are important and we will take that into consideration for fairness to everybody because if you just say delay you might create a wrong Impression that the airlines are responsible for 100% of the delays.
” I want to say delays are a global phenomenon but we want to minimize the number of delays that happen. If you know the reasons, if you categorize the reasons then you can see where actions can be taken or changes can be made or measures can be put in place to minimize such delays.
“So yes in fairness to them, I do agree with them that the report could have carried different reasons for the delays. So going forward we’ve listened to them and we will try to include that in our reports.”
