In a significant milestone for the aviation industry, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, on behalf of the Nigerian Government of Nigeria, has signed a Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) with Canadian authorities at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Keyamo explained that the agreement was not a full bilateral agreement but a code-share, which is an arrangement where two or more airlines market and sell seats on flights operated by another airline, allowing passengers to travel on flights under a different airline’s code.
He stated that Nigeria will designate airline operators to enhance the agreement.
The Minister thanked the Canadian authorities, stating that his counterpart in Canada had signed part of the bilateral agreement, but to save costs, he was signing the agreement in Nigeria.
He said that the agreement would go a long way in further strengthening the relationship between Canada and Nigeria.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Dr Ibrahim Kana, thanked the Minister of Aviation for his proactiveness and tireless dedication to advancing the course of Nigeria’s aviation industry.
Kana, while welcoming the Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, stated that Nigeria has the highest economic partnership in Africa with Canada, noting that the Bilateral Air Services Agreement would be beneficial to both countries.
In his response, the Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Pasquale Salvaggio, thanked the Nigerian government.
He said it was his pleasure to witness the signing of the BASA and expressed the Canadian government’s readiness to always work with Nigeria in strengthening bilateral agreements.
Code-share arrangements allow greater access to cities through a given airline’s network without the need to offer extra flights and make connections simpler by allowing single bookings across multiple flights and airlines.
Most major airlines today have code-sharing partnerships with other airlines, and code-sharing is a key feature of airline alliances.
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