The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) latest analysis of demand for passenger air transport worldwide and by region showed that African airlines have been recording moderate passenger growth. It is based on data provided by the world’s airlines during August 2018. It compares this data with the industry performance during the same month in 2017 […]
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Capt. Fola Akinkuotu has charged the oil and gas sector in Nigeria to consider critically the production of aviation fuel (Jet A1) in the country in line with the Nigerian Content Development initiative of the Buhari administration. Akinkuotu who was a guest speaker at the […]
Last week at the 14th Akwaaba African Travel Market in Lagos, aviation experts x-rayed the opportunities offered by the Single African Air Transport Market for Nigerian and other African airlines in the continent. This writer urges that Nigerian carriers can take advantage of open sky for Africa to explore more routes in the region. Aviation […]
Visa on Arrival (VOA), Ease of Doing Business policies introduced by the federal government at the nation’s major airports last year have boosted foreign direct investment (FDI) by investors who were hitherto discouraged by the difficult visa process in the past. THISDAY gather from senior official of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport […]
Domestic airlines have accused some African countries of strategically blocking them from flying to their countries while their airlines take advantage of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) to operate into Nigeria. Executive Chairman, Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Captain Nogie Meggison said that every African country targets the high passenger traffic in Nigeria while […]
