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 […]
The Managing Director of ASKY Airlines, Mr. Esayas WoldeMaria has said that the major reason Africans pay high airfares is because governments charge exorbitant taxes on air travel. Incidentally, despite the huge taxes, governments are reluctant to modernize airport and travel infrastructure, hence the low development of air transport in most part of Africa. Mr. WoldeMaria said airlines […]
Travel agents have expressed optimism and joy that airfares on international destinations are beginning to come down as the appreciation of the Naira over dollar has started reflecting on the International Air Transport Association (IATA) exchange rate, which is the bench mark that foreign airlines use to determine their fares. The General Managing Director, Flinchglow […]
Domestic airlines said that the major factors that contribute to increased price of flight tickets include the charges they pay for the use of the airports in the country, the high cost of aviation fuel and other charges paid to aviation agencies. The Chief Operating Officer of United Nigeria Airlines, Mr. Osita Okonkwo made this known at […]
