Arik Aircraft Aviation

Arik Air Resumes Direct Flights from Lagos to Kano

Arik Air has announced that it would resume direct flights from the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos to the ancient city of Kano effective Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The airline said the three weekly flights would operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Arik said the decision to reintroduce direct flights between Lagos and Kano was informed […]

Aviation

Air Peace Commences Abuja-Gombe-Abuja Flights

In keeping with its no-city-left-behind vision, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier Air Peace has announced it would be launching scheduled commercial flights into Gombe from Abuja. Similarly, the airline has also revealed plans to resume its Yola flight services. The Chief Operating Officer of the airline, Oluwatoyin Olajide, disclosed this in a statement made […]

Arik Air aircraft Aviation

Call for AMCON’s Accountability on Arik Air

AMCON’s Jude Nwauzor – Head, Corporate Communications made direct reference to my earlier interview published in THIS DAY on April 6, 2021 and made claims of alleged massive mismanagement in Arik under our management and lack of corporate governance and fear of collapse. Firstly, Nwauzor is an employee of AMCON, who is serving his masters […]

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Protecting Airports against Terrorists’ Attack

There have been information about plans by terrorists and bandits to extend the insecurity which has pervaded the country to the airports, but they have so far failed to access the facilities. Writer notes that more efforts should be made to further secure the airports On Monday airport security report was made public, which indicated […]

Aviation

Airfares Rise on High Cost of Aviation Fuel

Air travellers have been lamenting the outrageous airfares recently exacerbated by the high cost of aviation such that a one-way ticket last Sunday on a 55 minutes domestic flight went for about N120, 000. This was higher than the peak fares during the Easter season, which cost was about N80, 000 for the same flight […]