Aviation

Travellers Defy UAE/Nigeria Flight Regulations on COVID-19 Protocols, Travel to Dubai Through Neigbouring Countries

Many Nigerian air travellers have taken advantage of the diplomatic impasse between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Nigeria over COVID-19 protocols, as they now defy flight regulations emanating from both countries, THISDAY investigation has revealed. THISDAY observed that many Nigerian air travellers now travel to UAE’s popular destination, Dubai through the airports in Accra, […]

Aviation

Air Peace to Commence Douala, Ibadan Ops

Air Peace has announced the commencement of scheduled commercial flights from Lagos and Port Harcourt to Douala, the capital of Cameroon, on August 19, 2021. The airline in statement said it is also set to launch Abuja-Ibadan route on August 17. The airline’s Spokesperson, Stanley Olisa, in the statement said that the Douala route would […]

Ohunayo Aviation

ILS: WE ALL FAILED AND EMBARRASSED THE NATION

Olumide. O. Ohunayo The industry went into wild jubilation when the government announced in the last quarter of last year that it had purchased a new set of Instrument Landing System (ILS) CAT 3 to be precise for Lagos and Abuja airports respectively which was installed while the functional CAT 2 ILS in these airports […]

Sirika Aviation

How FG Disgraced Nigeria over Landing Equipment

In early February inclement weather occasioned by the harmattan haze exposed the poor navigational infrastructure at the nation’s busiest airport in Lagos and made Nigeria a laughing stock in the aviation world. Domestic airlines operators, aviation agency officials and others heaved a sigh of relief after mid-January, when the ferocity of the harmattan haze ebbed. […]