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The ECOWAS commissioner of infrastructure, Colma Kadje, Tuesday in Abuja said that plans were underway to establish “a strong regional airline in West Africa’’.
According to a statement from ECOWAS, the heads of state and the private sector of ECOWAS member states are collaboratingon the venture.
The statement said that Kadje made the announcement in Lome at a five-day seminar to harmonise and adopt complementary legal texts related to air transport economic regulation in the region.
Kadje said the exercise was to ensure better protection of air passengers in the region, considering its endemic and recurring airline crises.
He said that civil aviation administrations hada great responsibility toward the realisation of the regional airline.
He said that could be achieved by granting air rights to make it competitive and profitable due to the harsh competition in air transportation.
The statement said the seminar was attended by air transport experts from the 15 ECOWAS member states.
The experts would finalise four draft documents designed in 2004, for adoption by the relevant regional authorities.
The objective of the draft documents is to harmonise national regulations and contribute to the surge of a homogeneous and rationalised common market of air transport in the region.
Celestine Talaki, the Togolese minister of public works and transport, recalled the various steps taken toward air transport liberalisation in West Africa.
He noted the high expectations by member states for a trauma-free air travel in the region.
According to a statement from ECOWAS, the heads of state and the private sector of ECOWAS member states are collaboratingon the venture.
The statement said that Kadje made the announcement in Lome at a five-day seminar to harmonise and adopt complementary legal texts related to air transport economic regulation in the region.
Kadje said the exercise was to ensure better protection of air passengers in the region, considering its endemic and recurring airline crises.
He said that civil aviation administrations hada great responsibility toward the realisation of the regional airline.
He said that could be achieved by granting air rights to make it competitive and profitable due to the harsh competition in air transportation.
The statement said the seminar was attended by air transport experts from the 15 ECOWAS member states.
The experts would finalise four draft documents designed in 2004, for adoption by the relevant regional authorities.
The objective of the draft documents is to harmonise national regulations and contribute to the surge of a homogeneous and rationalised common market of air transport in the region.
Celestine Talaki, the Togolese minister of public works and transport, recalled the various steps taken toward air transport liberalisation in West Africa.
He noted the high expectations by member states for a trauma-free air travel in the region.
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