Air travellers have been lamenting the outrageous airfares recently exacerbated by the high cost of aviation such that a one-way ticket last Sunday on a 55 minutes domestic flight went for about N120, 000. This was higher than the peak fares during the Easter season, which cost was about N80, 000 for the same flight […]
There is one thing that is key as Nigerian airlines look forward to resuming flight operations on June 21. That is how to protect passengers from contracting coronavirus while boarding flights or while airborne. The regulatory agencies and service providers have sent out guidelines on how business activities would be conducted and the Nigerian Civil […]
There are indications that the large turnout of air travellers and cargo movement anticipated during the yuletide will multiply the challenge faced by security operatives at the nation’s airports in the coming days. Industry observers said they envisaged that more Nigerians would travel by air this year than the previous years because most roads in […]
Nigerian airlines have called on the federal government to review its tax policy for the sector as well as the cost of aviation fuel, in order to reduce cost of flight operations and ensure they remain in business. The operators said many airlines that went under in the last few years were due to high […]
Airline operators have attributed the high cost of air fares to what they described as outrageous cost of aviation fuel due to the fact the product is imported. They also said that the product, which takes at least 40 per cent of operation cost, would have sold less than its present prices if there is […]
