As the controversies concerning the remittance of 5 per cent Ticket and
Cargo Sales Charge (TSC) to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)
and indigenous airlines continue, Sahara Reporters has uncovered the
breakdown of the debts owe the regulatory agency by the airlines.
A document made available to our correspondent indicated that 13
airlines are indebted to NCAA on the 5 per cent PSC alone.
However, some of the debtors have closed shop while many of them are
still in operations.
As the controversies concerning the remittance of 5 per
cent Ticket and Cargo Sales Charge (TSC) to the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA) and indigenous airlines continue, Sahara Reporters has
uncovered the breakdown of the debts owe the regulatory agency by the
airlines.
A document made available to our correspondent indicated that 13 airlines are indebted to NCAA on the 5 per cent PSC alone.
However, some of the debtors have closed shop while many of them are still in operations. The document indicated that the troubled Arik Air, which is under the
receivership of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) is the
highest debtor with N9,460,745,429.96 accumulated as debt. The debt was
as at December 2016 while the airline was yet to pay any amount of money
to the agency in 2017.
The document revealed that Arik Air was supposed to remit
N61.4vmillion to NCAA monthly, but has failed in this regularly and only
pays stipends to the coffers of the agency monthly.
The debt of Arik Air alone is about 70 percent of defaults by local airlines. Following in the footstep of Arik Air is Dana Air with a monthly
remittance of N57. 5 million, but was indebted to NCAA to the tune of
N1.2billion as at December 2016. Besides, Med-View Airlines has a total debt of N1.03billion debt to NCAA.
