Airline Boss Wants FG to Establish Joint MRO

The Federal Government has been advised to go into partnership with Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul (MRO) companies abroad to invest in Nigeria, so as to save the aviation industry from imminent collapse.

The Managing Director of Medview Airlines, Alhaji Munner Bankoke, who gave the advice in Lagos at a briefing while receiving its acquired plane, said investing in MRO facilities will bring life into the aviation industry in the country.

“Government should invite MRO companies to invest and partner with them in the country and by so doing, we will be doing our C-checks here. It will reduce the cost of maintaining aircraft outside” Bankole said.

According to him, airlines in the country were passing through hard times in taking their planes outside for C-checks, describing it as capital intensive while adding that the establishment of such facilities will reduce the burden of airlines in the country.

Bankole, however, expressed displeasure that after many years of flight operations in Nigeria, the country was still grappling to survive in the aviation industry as a result of poor economy.