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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
West Africa’s leading carrier, Air Peace has said it will move a part of its flight operations to the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA2), Lagos on January 2, 2019 to position itself for better service to its customers. The airline, which has its main hub at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala […]
Last week aviation industry stakeholders debated why Nigerian airlines have short life span and identified factors responsible. Writer takes a look at the factors and the way out. Last week industry stakeholders met in Lagos to deliberate on factors responsible for short lifespan of Nigerian airlines and how to open the industry for potential growth. […]
