NCAA warns foreign airlines against revenue automation violation

The Acting Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Mr. Joyce Daniel Nkemakolam, has warned foreign airlines operating into Nigeria against violating its directive on revenue automation.


A statement from the aviation sector regulatory authority on Tuesday said the acting director-general was miffed by the high number of airlines that had not complied with the requirements.

He therefore gave the erring airlines two weeks to comply or face sanctions.

He, however, commended some of the foreign airlines that had been complying.

The statement by the General Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, Mr. Fan Ndubuoke, said the riot act was handed down at a meeting with the foreign airlines in Lagos on Tuesday.

According to NCAA’s regulations regarding revenue collection, the operating airlines are mandated to forward derivable data at the end of every flight operation to the regulatory agency.

The statement said, “These data are forwarded using NCAA’s AVITECH(Aviation Technology, the contracting firm handling the automation), portal for easy and transparent transaction to facilitate appropriate billing for the Ticket Sales Charge and Cargo Sales Charge.”

It added, “At the close of any flight, the data required by NCAA/AVITECH for billing is to cover the following components: flight number, flight date, ticket number, ticket class, flight route, originating country, currency of sale, basic fare, YQ, security tax, airport tax, total fare and rate of exchange.”

While some airlines requested for more time to synchronise their operating system with the portal, some were discovered to be contending with some parts of the components, especially, the YQ, security tax and airport tax.
However, the DG said this was unacceptable as they were stipulated country taxes, applied all over the world.
The statement said, “The NCAA is frowning at the delay in compliance as the alternate measure is manual composition, which is cumbersome, time consuming and fraught with human errors. This error margin, even if it is minimal, can lead to loss of revenue.”

Nkemakolam therefore strongly advised those airlines that had not complied to integrate their operations to the NCAA portal for seamless data transfer.
Most of the foreign airlines representatives were in attendance.

http://www.punchng.com/business/transport/ncaa-warns-foreign-airlines-against-revenue-automation-violation/
Culled from Punch Online