By LAWANI MIKAIRU

A five-man committee has been set up by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency ,NAMA,  and the non- scheduled commercial operators to  appraise the recently introduced new aviation charges for non- scheduled flight operators.

Mr. Supo Atobatele, General Manager, Public Affairs, NAMA, said the committee will have membership drawn from Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, as  observers, and expected to commence sitting next Monday.

It  had been given three weeks to turn in its report for further  deliberation month.

According to Atobatele: “The parties at a stake- holders’ forum in Abuja, yesterday, resolved that the issues relating to the new charges be resolved  within 60 days, just  as they agreed to uphold the one-stop shop payment system.

“The committee is to, among other things, appraise the proposed charges objectively, using the standard and acceptable basis for industry charges, taking aircraft weight, distance and unit rate  into consideration.

“The Director General of NCAA, Capt. Fola Akinkiotu, supporting the idea of having a committee to review the new charges, urged the members to do a thorough job, adding that whatever the stakeholders agreed thereafter with the aviation agencies shall become a law for all to abide with.”