Nigeria: Penchant for Expatriates May Stunt Aviation Growth

6 December 2013

The Nigerian aviation sector may witness weak growth as indigenous airlines spend substantial portion of their resources on expatriate pilots and engineers. This is more so because apart from devoting huge resources on expatriates, who represent a large percentage of their technical workforce, there is no programme to train Nigerians that will take over from them.

Presently expatriates pilots and engineers earn three times what their local counterparts earn and they are given more holidays and better welfare packages, which eat into the coffers of the airlines, known to make marginal profits at the best of times. Ironically, recent developments have exposed the fact that many of these expatriates do not have the requisite experience they claim to have and many of them come to Nigeria to learn on the job, as highly skilled personnel rarely leave their country of origin to work in third world countries like Nigeria.

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