Ticket Sales Charge Row Deepens Over NCAA, NAMA Revenue Sharing

The crisis within Nigeria’s aviation unions has deepened over the controversy surrounding the sharing formula for the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge (TSC), with the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) chapter of the National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE) openly disowning its national leadership’s position on the contentious issue.
The development has exposed widening cracks within the union over calls by the national body for a review of the TSC revenue-sharing formula in favour of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), arguing that the current distribution no longer reflects the operational realities and funding requirements of the nation’s air navigation ...