Oyebanji thrilled by flight operation approval for Ekiti airport

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji is happy by the approval of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority for Ekiti Agro-Allied Worldwide Cargo Airport, Ado Ekiti, to start non-scheduled flight operations efficient from December 15, 2024.

Reacting to the approval, the Ekiti State primary citizen described it as “a welcome growth and a justification for the state’s funding within the airport undertaking designed to spice up Ekiti State’s socioeconomic growth by making the state extra readily accessible.”

This was contained in an announcement in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by the Particular Adviser, Media to the governor, Yinka Oyebode, who acknowledged that the NCAA gave the approval in a letter dated December 11, 2024, addressed to Governor Oyebanji.

Oyebode acknowledged, “The federal government of Ekiti State welcomes NCAA’s approval for the non-scheduled flight operation, which permits non-public jets and different chartered flights to land and take off from the airport between 6 am and 6 pm (or dawn to sundown), preparatory to the ultimate approval for industrial flight operations.”.

The NCAA Appearing Director Common, Civil Aviation, Capt. Chris Najomo, acknowledged within the latter that ‘the approval of the non-scheduled operations underneath Visible Flight Guidelines on the airport is for a interval of six months—December 15, 2024, to June 15, 2025.’

He stated that the letter was in response to the state authorities’s utility for a flight operational allow for the airport.

Oyebode acknowledged that, “in accordance with the NCAA, the approval for a six-month non-schedule operation on the airport is to allow the NCAA to validate the implementation of the pending findings and to permit the Ekiti State Authorities time to rectify a couple of excellent corrective motion objects indicated within the company’s final inspection report.”.

He acknowledged that as a part of compliance steps in the direction of the graduation of the non-scheduled flight operations on the airport, operations are to lend a hand with related businesses for the availability of important providers, together with air site visitors providers, aerodrome rescue and hearth combating providers, aviation safety, and meteorological providers.

Recall that the state authorities had earlier signed memorandum of understanding and service-level agreements with the federal aviation businesses.

Most new airports are normally given non-scheduled flight approval to permit them to clear audit gaps of their compliance earlier than ultimate approval for a flight operational allow.

Oyebanji had earlier within the yr assured stakeholders that the Ekiti airport would change into operational earlier than the top of the yr.