NAMA Creates Nine New Regional Navigational Routes

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As part of plans to resume international flight operations in the country, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency has created nine new Performance Based Navigation Area, known as Navigation 10 (RNAV10) regional routes across the nation’s airspace.

This disclosure was made by the Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, in Lagos on Sunday.

Akinkuotu listed the newly created routes as:
UQ300- connecting Lagos to the Central African Republic;
UY604-linking Abuja, Port Harcourt to Southern Africa;

UQ181- connecting East and Central Africa to Europe through Nigerian airspace,
UQ400-connecting southern Africa to North Africa through Nigeria to Europe.

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Others are UQ324-from Adis Ababa to Niamey through Nigeria;
UY333-from Tunisia/Algeria to Lagos;
UY87-from East and Central Africa through Nigeria to Accra and Abidjan;

The rest are
UY57-from East and Central Africa through Nigeria coastal airspace to Cotonou, Lome and Abidjan as well as
UQ200-connecting Yaonde to Lagos.

The NAMA helmsman disclosed that NAMA has also created six new flight-plannable direct routes, which are:

OK DCT POLTO;
ARDEX DCT EDUKO;
LAG DCT XIRON DCT JOS;
KORUT DCT KDA;
POLTO DCT APRUN DCT DETAR/ KORUT and
KELAK DCT POSIB DCT GURAP DCT IBA DCT POLTO.

The NAMA boss said “the flight-plannable direct routes are to be used by compliant airlines’ flight management systems.

“It will avail them the opportunity of flight- planning and routing within the Nigerian airspace from an entry point direct to an exit point without recourse to existing Air Traffic service (ATS) route network.”

Capt Akinkuotu said the agency embarked on the initiatives to enhance regional connectivity, reduce flight time as well as fuel consumption for airlines, reduce C02 emission into the environment and reduce operators cost.

Domole Ifeoma