Airport runways under the management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria are all rundown. The poor conditions of the facilities expose flights to security and safety threats On Monday when the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and the Minister of State, Aviation, Senator HadiSirika met with members of Aviation Round Table (ART) in Lagos, […]
Africa has the least air connectivity in the world, according to aviation industry experts. It is an indubitable fact that a Nigerian that wants to go to Equatorial Guinea, which is about 30 minutes away from Calabar, would have to go to Dakar or Abidjan first to connect flight to the country that shares shoreline with […]
ASKY, the Pan African Airline, is pleased to announce its new nonstop service between Lomé and Johannesburg effective 8 April 2017. With this flight, Johannesburg will join the growing ASKY network operating from Lomé. Passengers will be able to connect between Johannesburg and ASKY’s entire network in West and Central Africa, including Abidjan, Bamako, Conakry, […]
Toulouse March 31st 2017 – The first Airbus A319neo performed its maiden flight today, The smallest member of the A320neo Family, powered by CFM International LEAP-1A engines took off from Hamburg and landed in Toulouse after a 5 hour flight. It was piloted by Experimental test pilots Michel Gagneux and Eckard Hausser. They were assisted […]
As the final deadline given to airlines to automate their payment system for the remittances of the statutory 5 percent ticket sales/cargo sales charge ends, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it would sanction airlines that did not meet the deadline. The Authority had shifted the January 31st 2017 ultimatum to March ending at […]