Captain Ibrahim Mshelia is the Chief Executive Officer of West Link Airlines and one of the renowned aviators in Nigeria and West Africa with over 40 years experience in flying around the globe. In this interview with SHOLA ADEKOLA , he spoke on issues trending in the industry. WHAT your take on ticket discrepancies on international routes between Nigeria and its neighbouring African countries? This is because those countries’ governments or their Civil Aviation Authorities (CAAs), do not charge the airlines as much as we charge them here in Nigeria.
When you charge an airline a particular amount of money, the airline transfers it to the passengers. This is why we are running around in cycles and we are not going to get anywhere when we keep running around in circles. Employment generation in Nigeria is about ‘who knows who.
’ Every minister comes and competes over the number of people they employ from their villages and others. We were all attacking Princess Stella Oduah as a Minister of Aviation for employing about 2,000 additional people, Sen. Hadi Sirika, came and upped it more.
When Oduah came, the entire workforce in the country’s aviation sector was about 33,000, but when Sirika came, he took it to about 40,000. I don’t know what the total employment of aviation is in the six aviation agencies at the moment. I think we should be above 45,000 now, but the fact is that we don’t need up to 10,000 workers in the entire country.
What does the Nigerian Meteorologi.