UK explores options of evacuating nationalsA chartered Air France Flight AF0986 thursday evacuated 260 European citizens from Nigeria and additional 118 European citizens from other West African countries through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, THISDAY has learnt. The British High Commission is also exploring options for sending its staff, dependents and other Britons […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said that it has made every provision to utilize the new terminals, known as Chinese terminals, as they are commissioned and put into operation. The General Manager, Corporate Affairs of FAAN, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu disclosed this to THISDAY in Lagos and said that the new Port Harcourt […]
Air France, one of the international airline operating in Nigeria is renowned to treat the issue of missing and lost baggage of Nigerian travellers with levity. It has been discovered that Nigerian travellers are made to suffer untold hardship based on their person effect after traveling on the airline. This was the case of an […]
According to industry experts, there is a general saying by foreign airlines that Nigerian operating environment is insecure. They use this assumption to charge exorbitant fares and up insurance premium when compared to what is obtainable in other countries in the region. About two years ago, precisely during the Air Finance Conference for Africa in […]
Although Nigerian airlines and international carriers agreed that for safety reasons the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja ought to be closed so that rehabilitation work could be done on the runway, but few days towards March 8, 2017 when the airport would be closed, airlines have not completed plans to move their Abuja operations to […]
