Nigeria, Canada Sign Code-Sharing Deal to Allow Airlines Sell Seats to Each Other The federal government and the government of Canada have signed a code-sharing regularity to boost efficiency in the aviation industry.
Gbenga Saka, special adviser on digital media to Festus Keyamo, minister of aviation and aerospace development, declared on his X page on Friday.
Codesharing is a practice in the airline industry where two airlines enter into a conformity that allows one to sell seats on a flight operated by the other.
The consonance signed would allow two or more airlines either from Canada or Nigeria to sell seats on each other’s flights.
Speaking during the signing of the consonance, Keyamo disclosed the consistency would advance the comparison between both countries
“Today, we advance our dependency one step further as we sign a very important agreement,” the minister said.
“It is not a full Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA), notwithstanding one that has to do with codesharing and subsequently, we are going to designate airlines on both sides to move this forward.
“An consistency has come into magnitude today and we will have to communicate with our local operators on both sides.
“Many of them have been in reality lining up for this initiative. We have in fact granted a few operators approval to run that route already and it is just for them to take advantage of this code sharing uniformness to start operations.”
Keyamo further disclosed the monotony was entered to ignite an aeronautical comparison between both countries.
On his portion, Pasquale Salvaggio, high commissioner of Canada to Nigeria, disclosed the homogeneity indicates the people-to-people ties and the growing bilateral and commercial relations between both countries.
“Code sharing is important because it allows for an airline to place their designator codes on a flight operated by another airline and then to sell tickets on that flight, offering passengers the seamless journey on one ticket,” Salvaggio said.
“So, this is one step in making it a more seamless process for the operators and for the passengers.”
On July 23, 2024, the duo started talks over the possibility of conjoining both nations through direct flights.
The two nations likewise conferred potential business collaboration in the aviation sector.
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Published 3/21/2025