Aviation

Emirates, Air Canada Form Unique Strategic Partnership

Emirates and Air Canada have announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement that would create more options for customers when travelling on the airlines’ networks while also enhancing the customer experience throughout the journey. Emirates and Air Canada intend to establish a codeshare relationship later in 2022 that would offer enhanced consumer travel choices […]

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RwandAir, Qatar Enter Interline Agreement, Increasing Access to African Destinations

Kigali based Easter African national carrier, Rwandair and Middle East mega carrier, Qatar airways have entered into interline agreement in order to expand their African destinations This will also enable Rwandair customers to fly farther to different destinations in the world, where Qatar Airways and its other partners extend their routes. As part of the […]

L-R: Mr Bernard Bankole, President. National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA); Mrs Fatima Gorbati, Pioneer Chairman, Agency Investigation Panel; Alhaji Muneer Bankole, MD/CEO, Med-View Airline and Chairman of the Occassion; Dr Gabriel Olowo, President, Aviation Round Table, ART; Captain Benoni Briggs, former Minister of Aviation; Mrs Adetutu Otuyalo, Manager, Corporate Sales, British Airways and Group Captain Edem Uyo Ita (rtd) at the 2019 Quarterly Business Breakfast meeting of Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative held in Lagos on Thursday. Photo Lamidi Bamidele Aviation

Aviation Experts Call for Fly Nigeria Act

Industry experts have called on the federal government to introduce the Fly Nigeria Act as a policy to support local airlines, noting that this would make it compulsory that anyone travelling on government expense must fly the local airline or its partners. The experts under the aegis of Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative (ASRTI) made […]

Sirika at the 5th Stakeholders Forum Aviation

Airlines Allege Government’s Utterances Threaten Their Operations

Airline operators have urged top government officials in the aviation sector to be careful the way they pillory their operations because such attacks hurt their business with their international partners. The airlines alleged that from the utterances of some government officials it has become obvious that government does not have confidence in its own airlines […]

Air Peace Gets IOSA Certificate

Fast rising domestic carrier, Air Peace has been granted the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification. The certification indicates that the airline has met all safety standards as recommended by IATA and with the certification; Air Peace can now apply to become a member of the international organization. Also as IOSA […]