Elin Group gets AOC, set to commence flight charter operations

L-R: Enyi Omoke, accountable manager/COO, Elin Group; Elisha Bahago, director of operations, Licensing and Training at NCAA; Elizabeth Jackrich, CEO, Elin Group, and Ajiboye Kayode, NCAA's director of airworthiness standards/chairman, Flight Safety Group, during the presentation of Air Operator Certificate (AOC) to Elin Group by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) in Lagos recently.

Having met all the requirements to commence charter operations, Elin Group Limited has been issued an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

The NCAA at a brief ceremony at its Annex Headquarter in Lagos presented Elin Group’s Operational Specifications and Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) to its Chief Operating Officer/Accountable Manager, Enyi Omoke.

Speaking at the event, the representative of NCAA’s Director-General, who is also the Director of Airworthiness Standards and Chairman of Flight Safety Group (FSG), Kayode Ajiboye, congratulated Elin Group Limited for successfully completing the regulator’s onerous audit and for displaying the highest level of professionalism and discipline in the course of securing the AOC, while urging the airline to remain exemplary.

“It wasn’t easy at all. This strict process sometimes takes many years to get but it took Elin Group less than two years to achieve. This is the first good step and maintaining it is the second part. You must keep your eyes on the ball and keep the safety standards,” Godwin Balang, general manager, AOC/Surveillance, said.