Our airworthiness status not downgraded–FirstNation Airways
FirstNation Airways has said that the airline’s airworthiness status was never downgraded at any point of its operations.
In a statement by Mr. Rasheed Yusuf, on behalf of the airline, he said it was necessary to issue the following clarification to correct misconception in a section of the media relating to the status of the airline’s operation.
Yusuf said, the airworthiness status of the airline was never downgraded as wrongly reported, saying “There is a clear distinction between Certificate of Airworthiness(C of A) and Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC).”
According to him, our Air Operators Certificate (AOC) fell due for renewal on July 31st, 2017; this is the third successful renewal that we have achieved working in good faith with regulatory authorities. The renewal process entailed subjecting our operations to rigorous and demanding audit processes covering all areas of our activity. Well before the AOC renewal, we voluntarily reduced our flight frequency to well within the capacity of our current fleet.
Yusuf said: “The AOC was successfully renewed for charter operation and we have contracts for sales distributions. We thus remain committed to the highest level of safety standard in line with global industry best practices. FirstNation is currently working on a fleet expansion programme and we are confident that we will expand to schedule operations during the fourth quarter of 2017.”
“We are working with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) with respect to the outcome of our recent appeal. It is imperative, that this is the very first infraction that has been alleged against us. We thus remain bullish about the outlook of this airline,“ he stated.
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