Ahead of planned resumption of international flights operations on August 29th 2020, the Nigerian Airspace Management agency NAMA says it has created 9 new Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Area Navigation 10(RNAV10) regional routes across the nation’s Airspace,
Managing director of NAMA capt Fola Akinkuotu who made this known in a release listed the newly created PBN routes to include UQ300- connecting lagos to the Central African Republic; UY604- linking Abuja, Port Harcourt to Southern Africa; UQ181- connecting East and Central Afica to Europe through Nigerian Airspace and UQ400- connecting southern Africa to North Africa through Nigeria to Europe
Also created are UQ324- from Adis Ababa to Niamey through Nigeria: UY333- from Tunisia/Alegeria to Lagos; UY87-from East and Central Africa through Nigeria coastal airspace to Cotonou, Lome and Abdidjan as well as UQ200 – connecting Yaonde to Lagos.
Akinkuotu also disclosed that apart from the PBN routes, NAMA has also created 6 new flight plannable direct routes.
The routes include OK DCT; ARDEX DCT EDUKO; LAG DCT XIRON DCT JOS; KORUT DCT KDA; POLTO DCT APRUN DCT DETAE/KORUT and KELAK DCT POSIB DCT GURUP DCT IBA DCT POLTO
The NAMA Boss stated that “the flight plannable direct routes are to be used by compliant airlines flight management systems and would avail them the opportunity of flight planning and routing within the Nigerian Airspace from an entry point direct to an exist point without recourse to existing Air Traffic service (ATS) route network”
Akinkuotu explained that the agency had to embark on the plan to enhance regional connectivity, reduce flight time as well as reduce C02 emission into the environment and reduce cost to operators and also reduce pilot workload and enhance airspace capacity
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