Qantas customers have requested exercise bikes and virtual reality entertainment among other suggestions for the airline’s ultra long-haul flights between Australia and Europe. Qantas currently flies non-stop between Perth in Western Australia and London, a 17 hour journey, but is looking ahead to the introduction of non-stops from the east coast of Australia to London […]
The President of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies, Bankole Bernard has said poor policies have retarded the growth of the aviation in Nigeria and urged government to take urgent action to save the downstream sub-sector of the industry and domestic airlines. What is your overview of the industry in 2018 to 2019? My […]
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has said that if the federal government develops cabotage policy in aviation it would resolve the problems associated with the existing lope-sided Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) the country signed with different nations whose airlines operate into Nigeria. Agbakoba made this known in a […]
South African Airways (SAA), has signed an interline e-ticket agreement with Africa World Airlines (AWA) to offer Nigeria travellers seamless connection to Washington DC, USA via Accra. The airlines said the partnership would result in one flight ticket issue to intending passengers flying to Washington from either Lagos or Abuja in Nigeria. With 37 frequencies […]
Currently there is shortage of pilots for commercial aviation in many parts of the world. For example, it was reported that in the US there is shortage of pilots, particularly at the regional airline levels. The report indicated that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that there were about 827,000 pilots in the US in 1987. […]
