IATA Aviation

Pressure Intensifies to Drop Quarantines in Favour of EU-wide Passenger Testing Protocol

  Aviation bodies set out common framework for pre-departure testing to re-establish freedom of movement in Europe and reunite families by the holiday season Brussels and Geneva – With less than 90 days to go before the year-end holiday season, European aviation bodies have intensified their call to replace quarantine measures with passenger testing. This […]

Aviation

‘Why Fewer Nigerians are Returning Home’

Reports have indicated that many more Nigerians would have returned to the country since resumption of international flights on September 5, 2020 if not for restrictive Covid-19 protocols and high airfares. Shortly before international flights resumed, the federal government had stopped evacuation of Nigerians abroad but there were still many Nigerians stranded overseas. Many of […]

Emirates airline Aviation

Nigeria Grants Approval for Emirates to Resume Operations

*South Africa Opens Borders to International Travellers Based on the undertaking by the authorities of the United Arabs Emirates (UAE), the Nigerian government has agreed to lift the ban placed on Emirates Airlines from operating into and out of the country. According to the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, the commencement of the airline’s […]

Aviation

AON Dissociates Self from Any Strike Action – Abdumunaf

The President of the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Alhaji (Dr.) Abdulmunaf Yunusa Sarina, has declared unequivocally that the Association completely dissociates itself from the planned indefinite strike action called by Labour over the issues of Government’s recent increase of Fuel Price and Electricity Tariff in the country. Alhaji Abdulmunaf noted that airlines had suffered […]