Last week industry think-tank group, Aviation Round Table (ART) held a conference on concession and the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), the builder and operator of domestic terminal at the Lagos airport, MMA2, Dr. Wale Babalakin, reeled out his experience as concessionaire and made recommendations on how concession of airport facilities could work […]
Aviation industry stakeholders have posited that concession is the only choice government have to attract private funds for the development of the airports It is becoming inexorably clear that the only option Nigeria has to develop its airports and deploy state of the art terminals, technology based facilitation utilities and synchronised security system is to […]
Stakeholders in the aviation industry have called for increased investment in the sector so as to stimulate economic growth. The experts argued that there has been a progressive decline of airline operations because the industry is not attractive to investors. This, they attributed to the low profit margin in the sector, despite high cost of […]
Last week the International Air Transport Association (IATA) hosted a sub-regional conference for West Africa in Accra, Ghana and identified key factors that have been retarding growth of air transport in the area. IATA believes that if there is increase in passenger traffic across the states in the sub-region, it would enhance connectivity, which would […]
In tune with expectations, the federal government has approved the appointment of Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu as the new Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and he takes over his appointment takes immediate effect. . Captain Yadudu who is to take over from the erstwhile Managing Director, Engr. Saleh Dunoma joined […]
