Aviation

As Controversies Rock FG’s Concession Plan

Since the federal government declared that it would concession terminal facilities in four major airports in the country, the plan has been fraught with controversies and fierce resistance from labour On November 22, 2006, the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, reported that it has successfully concluded an advisory […]

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Airlines Begin Integrating Facilities to RESA Platform to Resume Automated Passenger Check-in at MMIA

International airlines that operate into Nigeria have started integrating their facilities to the new Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE) operated by RESA three months after SITA, which hitherto provided the service, pulled out. This means that soon the airlines would resume automated passenger facilitation after several weeks of manual check in that caused delays and […]

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NNAMDI AZIKIWE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ABUJA NAMED BEST AIRPORT IN AFRICA

The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja has been awarded the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Award 2020 as judged by their customers as the Best Airport by Size and Region (5 to 15 million passengers per year in Africa). This award represents the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) commitment to continuously improving customer experience across […]

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2020: Year of Aviation Meltdown

The coronavirus killed over a million people globally, devastated many sectors in economies and literally castrated the aviation sector. S hortly before the lockdown around March 2020, South Africa Airways stopped its daily operations to Nigeria and thus ended direct commercial flight between two Africa’s largest economies. Globally the world economy has been devastated by […]

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Why Labour is against Airport Concession

  Recently labour unions representing the workers at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria reiterated their rejection of plan by the federal government to concession major airports in the country, insisting that there will be lack of transparency in the process Although when transparently conducted and subjected to the right legal and administrative framework with […]