NCAA to issue fines for delayed payment system upgrades

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has vowed to sanction airlines that missed the end of March deadline to upgrade and automate their payment system for the remittances of the statutory 5 percent ticket sales/cargo sales charge. The introduction of the Aviation Revenue Automation Project (ARAP) for revenue collection aims to aid data integrity, transparency, transaction accountability, controls and revenue assurance to the authority. NCAA said failure to comply will be viewed seriously and it will be forced to invoke the necessary provisions of the law against defaulting airline.