Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Could Have Happened Anywhere, Says Law Enforcement Source

The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has no special features that made it more or less vulnerable to a baggage-claim area attack, a federal law enforcement official tells PEOPLE. “It was an everyday target,” says the source when asked to offer insights into alleged gunman Esteban Santiago’s attack at this particular airport. Santiago is accused of killing five people and wounding […]

MH370 Found? Searchers Race to New Site

With time running out, the vessel looking for the jet dashes north to the area where scientists say it went down, suggesting that something significant has shown up. The Daily Beast has learned that in the final days of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the search vessel scouring the depths of the Indian Ocean […]

Inefficient Airport Facilities

In the last one month there have been acute problem of aviation fuel scarcity and bad weather that severely interrupted flight operations. These two problems, which are solvable, seemed at that time to eclipse the fundamental problem that has dogged flight operations over the years. The problem has been inefficient airports due to obsolete infrastructure, […]

Harsh Operating Environment Discourages Investment in Aviation Sector

Some stakeholders in the aviation industry have said  that  harsh operating environment, including disincentive government policies, high cost of  doing business  and  scarcity of  aviation fuel  are discouraging  investors from the sector.  In the past four years there have been more commercial airlines that went under than the ones that came in and in the last two years it is only Air Peace […]

Tackling the Harmattan Haze

Operators in the aviation industry believe that with  the right equipment, aircraft can fly under zero visibility. The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) said last week that harsh operational environment, which include lack of airfield lighting in most airports, deficient and obsolete airport facilities, poor and obsolete navigational aids force airlines to cancel about 50 per […]