So, this thing is all about applying your sense, but we have a lot of people that are not willing to think. Now that we have started to sell tickets at N551 to a dollar, I can tell you that the issue of trapped funds will move as fast as possible and it will come to zero. To fly to London now, it’s about a million naira and that is the cheapest.

The law of demand and supply is what is applicable in every business. If the supply outweighs the demand, the price would crash, but when people are threatened by the fact that their funds cannot be repatriated, the next thing they start to do is to reduce inventories so that they can make money. In the airline business, we have two ways of selling; you either sell volume or you make yield. Volume is when you have a lot of people while yield is when you sell a few, but you still make your money

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Agro cargo airports projects embarked upon by some state governments in the country are misplacement of priority.

Group Managing Director of Finchglow Travel,Mr,Bankole Bernard made his view known while speaking with news men in Lagos.

“You cannot be in a state where all the schools are mushrooms,    all the interstate roads are bad, teachers’ salaries are not paid,  agro airport is what is important to you. Can we get our priority?”

“To me, that is another misplacement of priority. Agro-cargo airport is a capital project. It is easier to make money and name when you embark on a capital project.”

According to him,no new governors  want to come in and continue on any legacy project not completed by their predecessors because the people will ask you ‘what did you do?

“However, there is nothing actually wrong if they get their priority right..  The governments need to get their priorities right. The concept is a beautiful one, but it is about setting priority right”.

On how the cashless policy affected travel agencies operations, he said he was waiting for the figures that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will release to the public.

“ Either we like it or not, the economy nosedived and I want to see what they are going to give to us. It is clear to us that the economy is seriously nosedived.”

“ Apart from the scarcity of cash, even online financial transactions too was grounded, which prompted the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele to apologise to Nigerians.”

He posited that the fact remains that the government did not tell us the truth about what happened.

The Finchglow Travels Managing Director  hoped that one day, somebody would be bold enough to tell us the truth about what happened.

“That the cash was not made available, it was intentional. If cash was not working, but financial transfer was effective, the agony will not be too bad.”

Asked for his assessment of the going government in almost eight years in the aviation industry,he is of the opinion that it is always easier for you to make an assessment of the government performance when you are on the other side of the seat.

“ From my perspective, the Government has done its bit. Today, you and me are talking about the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility, but was it there about eight years ago?”

“ We have seen a lot of improvements at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria. Within the period, the college has acquired a lot of simulators. You can take it for granted”

“ Also, in the last eight years, we don’t have aircraft accident to any commercial airline. It is very easy for us to take it for granted.”

In that same eight years, he noted we are talking about cargo airports across the country. Let us remember that somebody gave them approvals for that.

“ If the government did not buy into the idea, the cargo airports won’t happen. It is always easy for us to judge people from their point of weakness.”

“ For once, let us focus on their strengths. Could the government have done better? Yes, because we want more from them.”