The information Capital obtained from ECAA signals that the draft has been discussed with stakeholders. “When we asked foreign airlines for the air navigation charge they are amazed,” he remembered, adding, “the current tariff was applied when the exchange rate was eight birr for a USD.”Īs per the amended proclamation, ECAA has drafted a new rate. The former Director General said that the air navigation fee that ECAA charges is very small unlike many other countries “for instance if we see the tariff in Sudan it is very high compared with us, however there are very few countries like Singapore who do not impose such kind of charges.” The new proclamation added the term ‘collect fees and charges for Air Navigation services according to international civil aviation convention and rules’, which means that the authority has got a mandate to revise the tariff and make it come to effect. 1179/2020 that revised the proclamation ratified in 2008 indicated that Sub-Article 15 of Article 10 replaced by ‘collect fees and charges for Air Navigation services according to international civil aviation convention and rules further collect fees and charges for flight safety, inspection, control and follow up any other services from operators and airports enterprise based on approved tariff by the Council of Ministers. “There was a strong resistance from stakeholders, and after long struggles, at the end of my term, parliament went on to amend the Civil Aviation Proclamation that would allow the authority to relook the rate with the consent of stakeholders,” Wosenyeleh (Col), who led ECAA for a record 14 years, recalled. In light of the amended proclamation which gives power to the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) to set air navigation service charges, price revisions are signaled to be underway to a tariff that has remained close to zero for many years.Īccording to the civil aviation proclamation, air navigation is the operation that ECAA provides to guide an aircraft from one place to another, including the fixing of the position of an aircraft.įormer Director General of ECAA, Wosenyeleh Hunegnaw (Col), who left the position a year ago, reminded that in the past several years the authority had been fighting to revise the service tariff that it provides to local and international aircrafts, which for quite very long time had not been revised.
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