Nigeria will continue to experience high cost of flight ticket for a long time due to inadequate supply of aircraft, coupled with increasing growth of air travellers, the Managing Director and CEO of Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi has said. In an exclusive interview with THISDAY, Sanusi said shrinking fleet among Nigerian operators was a […]
Nigeria’s oldest carrier, Aero Contractors has announced starting fares of N80, 000 to any of its destinations, saying that it decided to bring down its fares to celebrate Christmas with its customs in appreciation of their loyalty over the years. With starting fare at N80, 000, Aero Contractors is offering the lowest cost of ticket […]
*Airline Attributes Loss of Summer Slot in Another Country to Commission’s Allegation Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace, has reported the allegation of exploitative fares by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to the Presidency in response to the Commission’s insistence that it is investigating it over unfair pricing of its tickets. The airline also […]
The hope that air passenger traffic in Nigeria will improve this year has not materialise as the half year passenger traffic report showed that the sector has been stagnated by economic challenges. Numbers obtained from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), showed that a total number of 5, 609, 146 passengers travelled between January-June. While […]
It has been established that air travel in Africa is costly and cumbersome due to huge government taxes and immigration bureaucracies, a development that is retarding economic growth of the African continent. The Managing Director of Asky Airlines, Mr. Esayas WoldeMaria, who established the fact, while speaking recently at Accra Wiezo in Accra, Ghana after […]
