{"id":21610,"date":"2020-06-17T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21610"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:24:42","slug":"nigerias-aviation-sector-lost-700m-in-three-months-to-covid-19-iata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21610","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s aviation sector lost $700m in three months to COVID-19 \u2013IATA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nigeria\u2019s aviation industry has recorded losses in the region of $700 million in the past 3 months to the coronavirus crisis, Funke Adeyemi, Africa Regional Director of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She made the revelation on Tuesday during a webinar titled, \u201cA National Conversation: Mapping Nigeria\u2019s response to COVID-19<\/a>,\u201d further stating that 90,000 jobs were at risk in the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAviation is one of the hardest-hit sectors. Over the past three months, passenger travel reduced by 90 per cent. That led to a loss of $28.5bn in GDP for Africa and put about three million jobs at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor Nigeria, the loss was colossal; the industry had about $700m loss and about 90,000 jobs at risk across the entire value chain of aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She nevertheless commended governments around the world for introducing lockdowns considering that the aviation business could have ramped up the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though passenger travel was down and none existent, aviation was still supporting the fight against COVID-19 by ferrying medicines and essential provisions around the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAviation continues to maintain its criticality \u2013 it\u2019s not just a means of transportation; it is actually an economic business, which supports the fight against COVID-19,\u201d Mrs Adeyemi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She disclosed that the IATA and other international bodies had reviewed alternatives to make air travel safer for passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe industry has been working proactively to see how we can mitigate the risk of spread where aviation is a vector for spreading and, at the same time, conveying passengers and the government. COVID-19 is with us for some time. There is no solution for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, what the UN, IATA and ICAO have come up with is a series of biosecurity temporary measures. It would look at the entire end-to-end passenger journey, right from pre-flight where we can collect passenger data and health declaration forms through established platforms, to travel procedures at the airports, and temperature checks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adeyemi noted that synergy between health authorities and the aviation industry would be significant to the resumption of flight operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nigerian government has declared that the civil aviation authorities will determine the resumption of domestic flight services in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sani Aliyu, National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said on 1st June that \u201cthe aviation industry is requested to start developing protocols to allow for domestic flights to resume anytime from the 21st of June onwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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