Nigeria Needs Additional 700 Air Traffic Controllers – NATCA

The Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) says at least an additional 700 Air traffic controllers are required to boost operations in the country’s airspace.

Currently, NATCA has about 400 members manning various control towers across airports in the country.

The National president of NATCA, Victor Eyaru disclosed this to journalist in Lagos while commenting on the hosting of the 59th IFATCA Africa & Middle East Region meeting /Workshop in Abuja from 5th March to 9th November 2018.

Eyaru called on the government to begin the employment of at least between 50 and 100 Air traffic controllers annually to increase ease of operations and ensure there was no vacuum created as a result of aging workforce in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.

NATCA President while commending the NAMA engineers for keeping the radars working, urged the government to source for spare parts for the Radars in the country to ensure that controllers did not go back to procedural Air traffic control in the country adding that additional radar /ADSB to work with the procedural control.