Experts chart course for driving aviation industry growth

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Experts chart course for driving aviation industry growth









Driving sustainability for the air travel industry over the years has remained a never ending debate, straddling between quick fixes, long term intervention and forward-looking strategies.


The desire to consolidate this all important target for the aviation ecosystem has stretched the latitude of aviation strategists, drawing the intersection between balancing government revenue demand with the sector's growth.

These considerations among others, were the key issues when industry players and stakeholders gathered on September 10,  2026 for The 30th Edition of the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) Conference at Providence Hotel, G.R.A, Ikeja.


After intense deliberations on the theme of the conference, participants resolved that:


■ To avoid a recurrence of high airlines' mortality rate, there is need for a review of the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge (TSC), collected  from airlines and in its place, they canvassed unit cost per flight.

■ To mitigate the effects of flight delays, participants called for proper dissemination of information to passengers early enough to starve off confusion at the airport.

■ They canvassed a review of government's huge revenue expectations from airlines and rather push for more practical ways for service cost recovery.

■ That in anticipation of the surge in airlines' fleet size, there is a needful massive investment in airport infrastructure.

■ They also canvassed enthronement of consistent policies to consolidate the sector’s growth.

■ They noted that considering the huge market potential of the country, there is need to galvanize the required framework.

■ They noted that the perceived unhealthy rivalry among stakeholders on revenue sources and industry growth is needless.

■ They advocated the need for the application of practical experience in the approach to the industry's sustenance for economic development.

■ They proposed the adoption of KPIs in arriving at charges and taxes issued to airlines  by government agencies.

■ Conference noted with concerns, the multiplicity of changes, which require verification so as not to discourage private investment into the sector.

■ Participants spared a thought for the conditions attached to personnel choice of unionization.

■ Appropriate charges and taxes from agencies to operators in pursuant of revenue should, if it will continue , should go beyond scheduled commercial sales airlines and be extended to other service providers.

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