The four major challenges bedeviling aviation industry, which have been identified as high cost of aviation fuel, depleting fleet of domestic airlines, aircraft maintenance facility and paucity of foreign exchange, can be addressed through collaboration between government and the private sector. The popular adage that no airline in Nigeria can succeed without government support literally […]
Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has threatened to sue the federal government over its policy of allowing foreign airlines to access multiple airports in the country. The operators insist that allowing each foreign carrier to operate to more than one airport in Nigeria boosts their repatriation of foreign currency out of the country and also […]
Since the demise of Nigeria Airways Limited, Nigeria has been consistently shortchanged by other nations through lopsided Bilateral Air Service Agreements and unfavourable commercial agreements. In July 2019 during a conference organised by League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC), industry stakeholders called for a review of Bilateral Air Service Agreements (BASA) Nigeria signed with […]
The Managing Director of Kings Airlines Limited, Senator Musa Adede has urged the federal government to look at the politics of slot allocation and ensure that Nigeria is not shortchanged, using that system. He recommended that in the spirit of reciprocity, Nigeria should also adopt its own slot allocation system so that if after signing […]
Aviation experts have expressed fear over federal government’s designation of two Sudanese airlines to operate to the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, just as the world commemorates 20 years anniversary of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US by the militant terror organisation, al-Qaeda. Informed source from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) confirmed […]
