The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has initiated empowerment programme aimed at inculcating young Nigerians with skills in different fields in the aviation industry to prepare them for jobs in the sector. One of the challenges faced by Nigeria is how to create jobs for the teeming youths and there is paucity of […]
One major challenge faced by Nigerian carriers is capacity, which has to do with how to build up fleet, and increase the number of seats to meet the demand of air travellers at fair price. This became a protracted challenge since 2015 and was continuously exacerbated by high exchange rate, stringent insurance conditions on aircraft […]
Although the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has significantly improved the processes of obtaining e-visa and passport renewal in order to encourage investors and others travelling to Nigeria, complaints persist over the difficulties encountered in the processes, a development that is giving intending travellers a serious concern. For instance, the applicants said it takes too long […]
•Secures approval from UK authorities for direct Abuja-London Heathrow flight Nigeria’s major carrier Air Peace has taken a radical step to significantly curb flight delays and cancellations in its operations and has placed three aircraft on standby to be deployed whenever any aircraft on duty is interrupted by bird strike, technical problem or other issues […]
Following a bird strike that hit Air Peace flight P47150 on Lagos-Owerri route yesterday, forcing the aircraft to return to Lagos, the airline has informed its passengers that there could be disruption of flights, and apologised for the delays. With the bird strike, the pilot-in-command of the flight made an air return, just as the […]
