ACCIDENT

Plane Crash in Brazil Kills All 62 on Board

A plane carrying 62 people on board yesterday crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo killing all passengers. The twin-engine turboprop plane was flying from Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to the main airport in São Paulo city when it came down in the town of Vinhedo, the Voepass airline said. According […]

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British Airways Honours SAHCO with Punctuality Award

Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc (SAHCO) has been awarded the prestigious Punctuality Award by British Airways for its outstanding regularity and safety performance in the first and second quarters of 2024 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos Station. SAHCO has also won British Airway’s bronze award for achieving its punctuality target of 96 per […]

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Aviacargo Conference Postponed

  The organisers of the 4th Aviacargo Conference, the premier cargo conference in West Africa, has announced the postponement of the event initially scheduled to hold on August 1, 2024, to August 22, 2024, due to prevailing circumstances in the country. According to the organizers, the decision to postpone the event has been taken with […]

arik Airlines

Divergent Views over Grounding of Arik Air Operations

On Tuesday this week, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo ordered the grounding of Arik Air operations in compliance with a court order. The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) later explained that it was the agency that took the decision in order to ensure that further execution by way of sale (assets […]

Airports

Impediments of Air Transport in Nigeria

One of the challenges Nigerian aviation industry faces is infrastructural limitation, which has plodded the rapid growth of the sector.  Our Correspondent reports that the inclination of government to embrace private sector investment in development of airport facilities may be the key to fast track development in the industry Over the years, inadequate or obsolete […]