Managing Director of Asky Airlines, Henok Tefferra has described the West African air transport market as a competitive one in a restrictive environment. He spoke to journalists at the just concluded Accra Weizo. The operating environment in West Africa is described as harsh but your airline has continued to operate successfully. How do you weather […]
Almost six months after the head of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency was removed, the federal government is yet to appoint a substantive successor. The writer examines how this has affected service delivery and created an air of uncertainty in the agency In February this year, the Managing Director of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) […]
The last two weeks could be described as the toughest period for Nigerian airlines as the aviation sector witnessed the worst fuel crisis in at least the past two years. The product was not available and few companies that had the product, sold at exorbitant prices. Airlines’ operations were crippled. Air passengers, who could not […]
Nigerian airlines under the auspices of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) have denied government has been funding Nigerian airlines and said unequivocally that domestic airlines in the country did not and have not received any form of funding from the government in the past 30 years since the deregulation in 1983. The operators said this […]
Two years on and Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is still missing. The plane disappeared on March 14 2014, probably over the southern Indian Ocean to the west of Australia. Despite an estimated $130m search by Australian, Chinese and Malaysian authorities, covering 120,000 square km of ocean (an area around half the size of the UK), the crash site […]
