The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has set a two weeks timeline for airlines to be fully integrated on the RESA Airport Data System platform.
Managing Director of FAAN, Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu made this known at the weekend after the tour with the Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Captain Musa Nuhu to the Murtala Muhammed Airport on a fact-finding and troubleshooting where he appealed to passengers to bear with FAAN on the hitches arising from data problem.
The integration would end the challenges in passenger facilitation which bedeviled the airports since June, this year.
The tenure of the contract for passenger processing management system provided by SITA lapsed since June.The firm withdrew its services after an extension was sought.
He said: “The DG NCAA wanted to see and inspect; so we decided to do a joint inspection. We went and saw that some airlines were already onboard like KLM/Air France. British Airways, Delta already have their cables.The DG even asked of Delta and he was shown. They are not fully onboard but they have gone far to be fully integrated on the RESA platform.
“The technicians came almost two weeks ago and all the equipment are here and from all indications within the next two weeks, we will have everyone fully on board because the team is ready and the airlines are ready.”
He explained that the target from the outset for FAAN was to improve the system as it previously had a system that covered only two airports: Lagos and Abuja, but with RESA the system covers five international airports, a national spread.
