Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria

The functions include:

• Review of recommended standards and practices and strict adherence to such standards.
• Ensuring the serviceability of airport facilities, Runway, Apron, Terminal facilities, access roads, etc.
• Liaison between Zones, Airports, Directorates, Ministries, Airlines, and other Parastatals.
• Investigation of accidents and incidents.
• Production of Operations Manual, obstacle chart, grid map, etc.
• Analysis and co-ordination of ICAO, ACI documents and activities.
• Inspection of environmental services.
• Preparation of departmental reports (monthly, quarterly and annually).
• Air Traffic Statistics.
• Facilitation, noise control and bird strike programme.

OPERATIONS/FACILITATION DEPARTMENT AT THE AIRPORT LEVEL

The structure of the department at the airport level is quite different from that of the headquarters. This is understandable because various policies from the headquarters are executed at the airport level.

Operations Admin.

All departmental administrative functions are performed in the office. This office liaises with the headquarters and other departments at the Airport level.

Airport Statistics

The statistics unit is responsible for the compilation of passenger aircraft, cargo and mail movements at the airport. The data so collated helps the headquarters to assess the rate of wear and tear of airport equipment.

Duty Office

The duty office is the nerve centre of operations department at the airport level. The duty officer ensures that all airport facilities are serviceable to ensure expeditious movement of passengers through the airport. The duty officer represents the airport management after office hours and at weekends.

Apron Services

The Apron Services Unit ensures safety on the airside. The office is responsible for the inspection of airside facilities and reports any fault in the logbook for ADO's action. Where this Unit is not available, the Airport Duty Officer performs the function

Bird control: Birds pose a great hazard to aircraft operation. To reduce this hazard, the bird control unit ensures that birds are scared away from the airports and its vicinity while ensuring that all bird nests are destroyed within and around the airports.

Portage Unit

This unit helps to facilitate the movement of passengers at the airport through the use of Trolley in carrying passenger luggage. This service eases the problem the passenger would have gone through having to carry one luggage after another while travelling through the airport.

Apron Control

This unit is concerned with the orderly movement of operational vehicles, aircraft, persons and equipment on the apron to avoid accidents. This office also ensures that airline flight schedules are compiled periodically for public consumption.

Marshallers Unit

In a busy airport, the need to sanitise aircraft parking on the apron cannot be overemphasised. The Marshaller guides the aircraft to its appropriate parking position on the apron to avoid collision with other aircraft, ground vehicle or personnel.

House Management

This is one of the image-making units of the Authority. The unit attends to passengers who are awaiting their departure at the VIP lounge either for a fee or on concession. A nursery manned by officers of the unit is also provided for nursing mothers while travelling through the airport. The unit supervises the performance of Cleaners/Cleaning Contractors at the airport. It also oversees what the various concessionaires display for public consumption at the airports.

Sanitary Attendants

This unit is concerned with the physical cleaning of the airport buildings, access road, etc., to ensure proper environmental sanitation.

Information Services

Like the name implies, this unit is concerned with the dissemination of information to the airport users. The information usually includes arrival and departure of flights, which are mainly from the airlines. Announcement is also made for passengers' relatives or friends who came to the airport for various purposes.