FG Loses N43. 48bn Foreign Airlines BASA Remittances

The federal government may have lost over N43.48 billion ($144 million) remittances paid by international airlines as reciprocity charges in the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) from 2014 to the end of 2016 due to the decision of the Ministry of Transport to stop collecting the charges without providing alternative payment platform for the airlines. […]

De Juniac: African Airlines Face High Costs

At the recent International Air Transport Association global media day in Geneva, Switzerland, the Director-General and CEO of IATA, Alexander de Juniac said there is improved air safety in Africa, but the airlines face high costs in their operations. In 2012 there was ministerial meeting in Nigeria over air safety, it was agreed that in […]

AON GETS NEW EXECUTIVE

Airline Operators of Nigerian (AON) has elected new executives at its 2016 Annual General Meeting in Lagos, January 11, 2017. The operators said in a statement that it now has new Executive Council in place to pilot the activities of the association for the next two years.  Captain Nogie Meggison, the Chief Executive Officer of […]

MADAGASCAR TO JOIN ETHIOPIAN’S VAST INTRA-AFRICAN NETWORK

Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, is pleased to announce that it will add Antananarivo, Madagascar to its network as of 28 March 2017. Madagascar will join the ever expanding Ethiopian network of 95 worldwide destinations. Antananarivo is the capital and the largest city of Madagascar. The island nation is known as a “biodiversity hot-spot” […]