Some domestic airlines may go extinct in 30 days – Onyema

…faults unions’ interference in ticket sales charge issue By Dickson Omobola Vice Chairman of Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, Allen Onyema, Wednesday, warned that many domestic airlines may go out of business within the next 30 days unless Federal Government urgently addresses the challenges confronting the aviation industry.

Onyema, also the Chairman of Nigeria’s largest airline, Air Peace, cautioned aviation unions against picketing any airline over the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge, TSC, saying if the unions do so, other domestic carriers would suspend operations.” On the unions’ planned action to picket airlines over the unremittance of the TSC, he said: “The Nigerian airline industry doesn’t have any problem with any union, nor do we have business with the unions.