The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned that Bangkok’s main Suvarnabhumi Airport is a safety risk, with “serious” overcrowding soon to become a critical issue, and urgent expansion needed, according to a local media report. Thailand is under pressure to improve its aviation standards after the US FAA downgraded the country’s safety ratings in […]
Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has announced that the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika are among the top dignitaries that would attend the review of the Civil Aviation Investigation of Air Accidents and Incidents Regulations, 2006 spearheaded by the bureau. The objective of the review […]
Former Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Fola Akinkuotu has been appointed the substantive Chief Executive Officer of Aero Contractors. According to statement from the airline, the Receiver Manager of Aero, Mr. Adeniyi Adegbonmire has appointed Akinkuotu as CEO for Nigeria’s major domestic operator, as part of the second phase of […]
Medview Airline has added Kaduna to its domestic network with a direct daily flight from Lagos effective Monday, March 7, 2016. In the new schedule released by the airline, the Lagos flight will connect Abuja from Kaduna on its return journey. The flight is billed to depart Lagos by 7.30 am and arrive Kaduna at 8.30 […]
A 39- year-old female passenger on board Arik Air’s Port Harcourt-Lagos flight was confirmed dead on arrival this morning by medical personnel at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Domestic Terminal 1 (General Aviation Terminal), Ikeja, Lagos. The deceased who was to celebrate her one year marriage anniversary next month, boarded the flight from Port Harcourt in […]