The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Engr. Saleh Dunoma, has been honoured by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) with the award of “Leader of Service Excellence” award at the institute’s Presidential Dinner and Awards which took place on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the Nicon Luxury Hotel, […]
Airline holds position as #1 airline brand and #1 brand in the region Emirates has come out on top again as the world’s most valuable airline brand, according to the 2016 Brand Finance Global 500 report, which was released yesterday. The airline’s brand value grew 17% over last year to reach US$ 7.7 billion. For […]
Major achievement to reduce CO2 emissions from civil aircraft Airbus welcomes the CO2 emissions standard for commercial airplanes proposed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) on the 8th February 2016 in Montreal, Canada. The agreement on the ICAO “ CO2 Standard” is the result of work by a task force of experts […]
A British court on Tuesday jailed the pilot of a light-aircraft for 19 years after he was convicted of smuggling cocaine worth tens of millions of pounds on flights from Germany. Andrew Wright, 52, was arrested in November 2014 with 34 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of 4.25 million pounds (6.16 […]
The European Union is seeking tough limits on public subsidies to airlines and the option of revoking their traffic rights as part of new commercial aviation agreements it wants to negotiate with several countries including Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. A draft “fair competition clause”, which the EU executive wants to include in air […]
