A week today, Air Peace flight landed at the international runway of the MurtalaMuhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos at about 8:30 pm. It took the aircraft about 30 minutes to taxi to the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) the final destination of the flight. Before it landed, the aircraft queued (hovered) with both international and […]
Failure to effectively service their debts has prompted Nigerian banks to cut their credit facility to domestic carriers, thus denying them operational funds. Inside sources disclosed to THISDAY that some airlines could not source funds to pay for the maintenance of their aircraft overseas and could also not ferry the ones due for major maintenance […]
The President of National Association of Nigerian Travel Agents (NANTA), Bankole Bennard said that members of the organisation sold tickets worth about N503 billion in 2017. Bennard said that it showed that travel agents contributes significantly to the nation’s GDP, which is the downstream of the aviation industry, noting that the sub-sector is pivotal in […]
Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive of Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL), Mr. Basil Agboarumi has described Nigeria a tough environment to do business. Some of the things he identified as what makes Nigeria a difficult country to do business include policy summersault by government, high and sometimes multiple taxation, lack of constant electricity and […]
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, is pleased to announce that it will take delivery on 5 June 2018 of its 100th aircraft, a Boeing 787-900, the 1st for an African airline to operate 100 aircraft fleet in the history of the continent, thus maintaining its […]
