The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that 73 airlines have committed to its Safety Leadership Charter, focusing on passenger and airline staff safety. IATA said the charter was created in collaboration with airlines worldwide and aviation community members, with the goal to encourage safety cultures through eight principles. The principles include: Reinforcing safety through both words and […]
Pilgrims, stakeholders airline operators have commended the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) over the successful commencement of the 2024 airlift of pilgrims to the Holy Land, Saudi Arabia. The stakeholders said that at all the airports the airlifting is taking place, there is absence of hiccups that characterized the exercise in the previous years. […]
Aviation industry stakeholders have expressed deep concern over the many aircraft incidents in recent time, insisting that the development is aggravating their fears and compelling them to remember major air accidents that occurred in Nigeria in the past that claimed the lives of many Nigerians They therefore called on the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) […]
Aviation industry stakeholders have stated that Nigerian airlines lose about N4 billion revenue annually due to inability to operate flights for longer hours. They identified lack of airfield lighting at some airports, paucity of air traffic controllers and insecurity as reasons for the limitation of airlines to operate their aircraft for longer hours. According to […]
Despite the campaign for liberalization and collaboration to realise the objectives of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), the Chairman of Air Peace Dr Allen Onyema yesterday narrated how some countries in the region where the airline extended its services use hostile operating environment through outrageous airport charges to frustrate the Nigerian carrier. Onyema said in […]
