After months of agitation the federal government has included airlines in the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market, which means that they would now be given priority when they request for foreign exchange, along with others also shortlisted. The Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika made this known at the weekend and said that it was […]
Some international airlines, which hitherto had their operational bases in Nigeria, have started relocating their offices to Accra, Ghana from where they come to pick passengers in Nigeria. The airlines, THISDAY gathered, cited the poor value of the naira, high cost and paucity of aviation fuel as some of the reasons for their relocation. Already, […]
The Chairman of Airline Operators of Nigeria, Captain NogieMeggison says the aviation industry is a huge source of revenue to the government, just like oil, but government must put favourable policies in place for this to happen. With the meeting at ART yesterday (Wednesday August 3) could you say that government is responsible for most […]
The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency address the acute shortage of Jet Fuel that the country has been experiencing in recent times. The call was made by the Chairman of AON Captain Nogie Meggison on the heels of a consistent unavailability of the […]
Nigerian airlines under the auspices of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) have denied government has been funding Nigerian airlines and said unequivocally that domestic airlines in the country did not and have not received any form of funding from the government in the past 30 years since the deregulation in 1983. The operators said this […]
