The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have held high level deliberations bordering on collaboration and synergy of the two institutions in the areas of security of navigational infrastructure, calibration of navigational aids, training of personnel and exchange programmes. Speaking when he led a high-powered delegation on […]
Last week saw an astonishing moment of frankness from the A380’s biggest customer. Tim Clark, President of Emirates, told Bloomberg ngIf: ticker that not only had discussions on a new re-engined A380neo version of Airbus’s 525-seat jet “kind of lapsed,” but that his “main concern is that they stop producing the plane.” This was the […]
Venezuela, $3.780 billion; Nigeria, $591 million; Sudan, $360 million; Egypt, $291 million; Angola, $ 237 Domestic operators urge govt to address Forex constraints facing domestic carriers The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday hinted that foreign airlines may withdraw services in Nigeria and other countries where their revenues were trapped unless they […]
By Yakubu Dati Senator Hadi Sirika, the Honourable Minister of State, Aviation has unfolded the vision and strategies of the President Mohammad Buhari administration for achieving a quantum leap forward for the Nigerian Aviation industry. First, he made it clear that Aviation” is pivotal to the growth of key economic sectors, certainly not limited to […]
A Malaysia Airlines flight from London to Kuala Lumpur hit severe turbulence on Sunday, with some passengers and crew suffering minor injuries. Malaysia Airlines flight MH1, carrying 378 passengers and crew, experienced “a brief moment of severe turbulence” over the Bay of Bengal, the company said in a statement. A “small number” of injured passengers […]