US carriers United and Delta have offered to re-assign flight crew concerned about contracting the Zika virus from routes to Latin America and the Caribbean, Reuters reports. The move shows how the mosquito-borne virus, linked to birth defects in Brazil, looms as an issue not just for passengers but for flight crews as well. In […]
Florida Governor Rick Scott has expanded a public health emergency over the Zika virus, adding a fifth county to the list of areas in the state with travel-related cases. Reuters reports that his action came as the mosquito-borne virus generates increasing concern in the United States. Zika is spreading rapidly in the Americas, and has […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced the suspension of the operation of Bristow Helicopters Limited’s Sikorsky S-76C++ type helicopter until further notice. The Director-General of NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman, at a briefing in Lagos yesterday, explained that the suspension was necessary to enable the authorities carry out a full-scale audit on Bristow’s operations […]
Chairman of Ashton and Dave Limited, a travel agency, Abiola Lawal in this interview with Chinedu Eze, evaluates the potential of the air travel market in Nigeria, positing that the country has to brace up to fully exploit and benefit from the huge air passenger population. Excerpts: How do you see the travel […]
The federal government has instructed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to make all its airports to generate revenues in order to meet financial targets and also sustain their operations. From this year the federal government will no more fund projects in the agency and at the end of every year, FAAN […]
