Former Managing Director of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc and CEO of AviaPort Services Limited, Bates Sule, in this interview with Chinedu Eze, reasons that restructuring the aviation industry is the surest way of addressing the infrastructure challenge in the sector. Excerpts: We have infrastructure challenge in the aviation sector. Many believe that the solution […]
Controversy has continued to trail the Aero Contractors’ use of ladder to disembark passengers when it operated charter services from Abuja to Sir Tafawa Balewa International Airport, Bauchi in Bauchi state on December 19, 2015. The report has gone viral and different analysts have described the incident as gross safety breach, a […]
Citing Nigeria’s slowing economy amid scarcity of foreign exchange, international airlines that operate to different destinations in the country plan to reduce flights to Nigeria from early 2016, THISDAY investigations have revealed. The airlines, according to sources, are aggrieved that they cannot exchange billions of revenue in Naira in their possession to dollars […]
Nigeria’s major carrier on December 17 held Christmas Concert at its headquarters in Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, where all members of the airport community, including parents, children and staff of the airline were invited. Arik used the occasion to also unveil its Christmas lights, which since installation had embroidered that part of the […]
Boeing recently rolled out the first completed 737 Max 8 airliner at its assembly facility in Renton, Washington. The company’s next-generation single-aisle airliner was presented at a ceremony in front of several thousand Boeing employees. Over the years, the 737 family has become the bestselling airliner in the history of commercial aviation, with more than 13,000 aircraft […]
