FAAN Automates Car Park at GAT, Boosts Revenue
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has automated the car park at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos.
The agency said it hopes that this would boost its non-aeronautical revenues as every vehicle parked generates hourly revenue of N100 in addition to N400 parking tariff.
General Manager, Corporate Communications, FAAN, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu said that within one month of the automation exercise, FAAN had recorded 68 per cent revenue increase.
She explained that the automation exercise had blocked some of the loopholes in the system, stressing that FAAN was generating more revenues than in the past from the GAT.
Yakubu said that with the automation of the car park, rowdiness and massive traffic associated with the manual collection at the park had disappeared.
She further added that FAAN would review the performance of the exercise by the end of this quarter and make adjustments where necessary, but noted that so far, the new system had been in favour of both FAAN and the public.
“FAAN decided to overhaul the whole system and see how we could make it orderly because we were getting a lot of complaints from our passengers and airport users that they were not getting a space to park their vehicles. Then, we were wondering if all the people that park their vehicles at the car park are airport workers and travellers. Also, we are in an era of technology where people no longer do things manually, but automated. That was what prompted FAAN into doing the automation.
“And since we started, there has been a lot of sanity at the car park, there is a lot of orderliness, progression. As soon as you go into the airport, you just go into the car park without any issues. In time past, there were lots of queues. Once you get into the airport, if you are not dropping, you are encouraged to go to the car park and do your business there, rather than parking on the road and creating traffic.”
Despite the automation of the car park, Yakubu said that FAAN would still continue with the planned construction of a multi-storey car park within the GAT terminal, stressing that such would further enhance revenue generation for the agency.