Wonderboom National Airport (WNA) held its first 2024 stakeholder engagement meeting on 8 February 2024.  Tenants, flight operators, aircraft owners and employees in general at WNA were among the attendees over and above City of Tshwane officials from sister departments.

The engagement was a resounding success where the focus was on addressing all pertinent WNA concerns. These ranged from security controls to facility maintenance and expired leases, as well as the strategic direction of the WNA as recently pronounced in the media in that the City of Tshwane Mayoral Committee approved the new operating model for the WNA that will allow for the injection of equity from the private sector to invest in the further development of WNA to drive economic growth and create new opportunities.

The WNA manager also used the engagement to address persistent arrears accounts and to encourage tenants and operators to honour their financial obligations to avoid contemplated collection actions that will be detrimental to air commerce at WNA.

Attendance and participation were unprecedented with further engagements agreed to be held in the coming months to deal with the WNA Tariff Structure during the Medium-term Revenue and Expenditure Framework public participation process.

The meeting acknowledged the seminal work done by WNA management to provide quality services and to create an enabling business and work environment despite facing a myriad of pervasive financial challenges.