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Airline operators have raised concerns over the feasibility of Nigerian airports adopting the daily slot system for domestic scheduled operations.

Though the option aims to ward off flight delays and reckless cancellations in flight operations, operators said the airport infrastructure was not yet primed for quick facilitation that the slot system requires.

An advocate of the daily slot system, Group Capt. John Ojikutu , reasoned that with the pressure on major airports like Lagos and attendant passenger traffic, Nigerian airports might deploy the strict schedule system, where operators depart and arrive as and when due, or pay fines for missing slots.

“I personally considered the slot option to be unrealistic where the airports have not been upgraded for seamless operations. Here, we are putting the cart before the horse to be talking about slots now. The highly contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19 has put many off flying, and because of it, getting people and goods from point A to point B has become an afterthought for thousands of flights.

In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration has waived similar minimum slot-use rules until March 26, 2022 citing the pandemic. Slots are limited at only a handful of U.S. airports, including Kennedy and LaGuardia in New York and Reagan Washington National.

 

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