Aviation

NAHCO Posts N4.64b Result in 2018

Nigeria’s foremost ground handling service provider, the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance), has announced 2018 half year result of N4.64Billion. This is against the N3.71 Billion posted for the same period in 2017. The results showed a 25 percent increase over the same period last year. The company’s profit Before Tax stood at […]

Bowser Aviation

Hiccups in Aviation Fuel Supply

One of the many concerns in Nigerian airlines is the disruption and unreliable supply of aviation fuel, which most often hamper airline operations. Many of the flight cancelations on domestic operations are due to delay in fuel supply. Besides the high cost of the product, which increases at the airports located up north, the supply […]

Bombardier Q-400 Aviation

Mechanic Steals Plane from Seattle Airport, Crashes after Being Chased by Jets

A mechanic at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport stole a Horizon Air passenger airplane and crashed it into the Puget Sound in an apparent suicide Friday night, authorities said. According to The Mercury News, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said the 29-year-old man acted alone. There were no passengers onboard. “This is not a terrorist incident,” sheriff’s […]

Sokoto Airport Aviation

Nigeria’s Porous Airports

Last Friday the supporters and loyalists of the former governor of Sokoto State and now Senator representing Sokoto North, Aliyu Wamakko broke into the restricted area of the Sokoto airport, thus exposing the pilots, passengers and aircraft to danger. Chinedu Eze writes that many airports in the country are not fortified and therefore are exposed […]