The Emirates Aircraft Appearance Centre, the world’s largest aircraft painting facility owned by an airline, has completely stripped and repainted 33 aircraft last year, or 13% of its fleet. During the year, Emirates gave a fresh coat of paint to three Airbus A380s and 22 Boeing 777s, in addition to eight aircraft that were retired […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said that to win the war against terrorism, insurgency and other organised crimes, it has become imperative for the agency to be granted unrestricted access to the International police (INTERPOL) portal. The Comptroller General of Immigration (CGI), Muhammad Babandede made this request when the Ag. Inspector General of Police, […]
TransAsia Airways Flight 235 crashed soon after takeoff from a Taiwan airport because the pilot failed to identify and respond properly to an engine problem, according to a crash investigation report released Thursday. The crash Feb. 4, 2015, killed 43 people and injured 14 others. The aircraft’s dramatic fall from the sky was captured on video, which showed the plane swooning […]
The federal government has been enjoined to reinforce security at the nation’s airports to forestall possible terror attacks. The experts gave the advice, following a resurgence of terror attacks on airports around the world. They recommended among others, more intelligence rather than physical checks at the airports, deployment of hi-tech equipment to monitor activities at […]
Travel expert and organiser of Akwaaba African Travel Market, Ikechi Uko said urgent government attention is needed to save the air travel industry. Let’s start with what the economy has done to domestic passenger traffic. What is your evaluation of the market? From my experience in the past two weeks going to Abuja and Enugu, […]
