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. […]
It has emerged that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), poorly rates Nigeria’s international airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu, because they lack needed state-of-the art facilities to make them friendly to travellers. For airports to meet given standard in accordance to ICAO regulations, international airports are supposed to have both security […]
Ethiopian Airlines Group is building five more domestic airports with the view to expanding domestic destinations, Chief Executive Officer Mesfin Tasew said. Mesfin Tasew, indicated that the airline is working to expand domestic and international destinations, disclosing that the airline has 136 international and 22 domestic destinations. With the increasing number of its planes, the […]
While MMA2 is grossly underutilised due to government policy, other terminals lack basic infrastructure despite high passenger throughput There has been progressive increase in the number of passengers that use Nigeria’s airports both for domestic and for international flight operations. For many years, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which controls about 26 airports […]
Aviation industry stakeholders have identified multiple taxes, high operating cost and charges levelled against the airlines by aviation agencies, as the factors responsible for the hike in domestic flights. According to the stakeholders, airfares on domestic flight service have been on the increase in response to cost of operation, thus making it difficult for some […]
