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 […]

Dana Air Flight Crew Aviation

Dana Air Supports Entrepreneurs, Women in Media initiative

In celebration of the International Women’s Day 2019, Dana Air has supported the Women in Media Development initiative 2019 and Women Entrepreneur Fair, scheduled to hold on the 29th and 30th of March at the Justice Idris Kutigi Conference Centre in Minna Niger State. The Women Entrepreneur Fair (WEF), an initiative of the Airmingle Media ltd is aimed at […]

Aviation

Debate over Airport Concession

The anticipation by international aviation organisations is that developing countries are going to have humongous growth in passenger traffic in the next 15 to 20 years. But many of these countries expected to record growth, including Nigeria, do not have airport infrastructure that can contain the projection. This, therefore, calls for urgent expansion of airport […]

NCAA DG, Muhtar Usman Aviation

Concerns over Shrinking Number of Domestic Aircraft

Industry experts have noted that while the number of domestic air travel in the country is growing, the number of operating aircraft owned by the airlines has reduced. This, according to them might hamper the growth of domestic airlines in the country as well as negatively affect air travelers. Industry experts are of the view […]

Captain Usman Aviation

NCAA Goes Tough on Erring Operators

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has sanctioned four erring operators for various degrees of violations. This includes both scheduled and non scheduled operators. During a spot inspection carried out by NCAA Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASI) on those operators, a number of deficiencies, including non implementation of training programmes of maintenance personnel as required, irregularities […]