Sierra Leone’s commercial airline, Air Sierra Leone has commenced flight operations from Freetown to Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest commercial city to connect one of the biggest markets in Africa. The airline also announced technical partnership with Xejet, one of Nigeria’s domestic carriers, which will provide aircraft for it’s operations. The airline which marked its inaugural flight to Lagos on Wednesday recorded 36 passenger […]
With a population of over 200 million people, it is expected that Nigeria should be adding about four million passengers annually to the number of persons that travel by air both on domestic and international destinations, but air travel statistics show undulating results that sometimes oscillate, indicating that there is really no growth in the […]
Flight delays in domestic schedule service can be mitigated if airlines work effectively together in the sense that during none peak hours, airlines can collectively put their passengers together and designate one aircraft to each destination with full passenger load; instead of each airline deploying aircraft to the same destination with less than 40 per […]
The organisers of Akwaaba African Travel Market have announced the dates for the 2025 edition. From September 14th-16th, 2025, travel and tourism industry stakeholders across Africa and beyond will once again gather in Lagos, Nigeria, for the 21st Akwaaba African Travel Market. The three-day event is set to bring together over 20 countries. Akwaaba is […]
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed the mid-flight incident suffered by United Airlines Flight UA614 on Thursday, January 23, when it left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to Washington, United States, but was forced to declare emergency and made air return after about two hours of flight out of the departure airport. […]
