Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier has again scored another first by receiving the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) Third Country Operators (TCO) Authorisation to fly into any European Union (EU) country. Arik Air is among the 590 global airline operators that successfully completed the stringent certification process before the deadline of 26th of […]
Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier is increasing its flight frequencies to key domestic destinations ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities to cope with passenger demands. The airline’s decision to increase flight frequencies on the domestic routes is predicated on the need to ensure that many Nigerians are able to travel […]
Nigeria’s major carrier, Arik Air said high cost and scarcity of aviation fuel, inability to access FX are the major setbacks of its operation in Nigeria as it turned 10 years. The Managing Director of the airline, Chris Ndulue explained that its daily demand of aviation fuel, known as Jet A1 is about 500, […]
Arik Air started commercial flights on October 30, 2006, with only 3 aircraft- 3 Bombardier CRJ900s. Today, 10 years later, our fleet have grown to 28. We started operations with only the Lagos-Abuja route. Today, we fly to 18 domestic destinations and 10 regional and 3 international destinations (including regular schedule to New York JFK, […]
The federal government has made it clear that it would concession the four major airports in the country so that the private sector can invest in infrastructure of airport facilities. A government with lean resources in a capitalist society obviously would think of other ways to fund and provide social amenities to the citizenry. […]
