Joint labour unions in the aviation industry said they would carry out peaceful demonstration from Monday September 12, 2022 and a total industrial action after a 14 day period to protest against a threat arising from what they described as ‘some obnoxious’ clauses infused in the Aviation Bills presented to the President to accent into […]
Embraer will debut the E195-E2, its largest commercial aircraft, at Aviation Africa 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 12, 2022. The aircraft, belonging to Air Peace Limited, Nigeria’s largest airline, is one of five units currently in operation with the airline. The E2 is helping Air Peace achieve its ambition of connecting not just all […]
Further investigation has revealed that the stowaway found on a United Nigeria Airline aircraft, parked at MMA2 Ikeja, during preflight inspection in the early hours of Sunday September 4, 2022 has given his name as Rasheed Mukar from Badagry in Lagos State. THISDAY learnt that he also told security operatives that he is 14 years […]
Last week, the Aviation Round Table (ART) held a breakfast meeting in Lagos and deliberated on the industry with the theme on airport security. In the communiqué the think-tank body released later, it stated among other things that multi-layered security system, which does not necessarily mean physical multi-layer structure but technologically driven security coverage, should […]
The four major challenges bedeviling aviation industry, which have been identified as high cost of aviation fuel, depleting fleet of domestic airlines, aircraft maintenance facility and paucity of foreign exchange, can be addressed through collaboration between government and the private sector. The popular adage that no airline in Nigeria can succeed without government support literally […]
