The federal government has given airlines a checklist to comply with before they would be certified to resume flight operation, which has been tentatively fixed for June 21, THISDAY has learnt. These conditions include all the protocols to prevent infection and spread of COVID-19 in flight operations in order to protect travellers; the safety of […]
The management of Air Peace has expressed gratitude to the governments and people of Israel, China and India for contracting the airline to evacuate their citizens to their countries due to the coronavirus pandemic. Air Peace evacuated about 210 Israelis from Nigeria to Tel-Aviv on March 29, 2020, evacuated about 307 Chinese from Lagos airport […]
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Hon. Nnolim Nnaji has prevailed on the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to consider partial opening of the airports to unlock the economy. The House noted that as the Ministry of Aviation and its agencies are planning a gradual return to full flight operations in the […]
The government of India celebrated the first direct flight from Nigeria when the nation’s major carrier, Air Peace, airlifted 312 if its citizens from the Murtala Muhammd International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to Kochi. According to the verified twitter account of Indians in Nigeria, @india_nigeria, the “repatriation of India nationals from Nigeria began today (Sunday) with […]
There have been clamour for Nigerian airlines to become fully engaged in cargo delivery as alternative source of revenue generation, since passenger service suffered under the COVID-19 lockdown. Since the lockdown that led to the suspension of commercial flights, cargo delivery has been going on and many airlines that have strong cargo market augmented their […]
