Officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) are lamenting over the failure of the agency to meet its monthly revenue target at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. They attributed the situation to loopholes created by some of the personnel who man the revenue sources of the agency. A reliable source at […]
Besides human error, the weather has been identified as major cause of air accidents. The writer notes that recent weather-related incidents in flight operations call for another review of agencies and airlines collaboration on flight safety Recently there was a virile video where passengers who disembarked from one of United Nigeria Airlines flight knelt down […]
•Night landing returns in Lagos as FAAN fixes runway light Emirates Airlines will resume flights to Nigeria from June 23, five months after it banned outbound flights from its Abuja and Lagos destinations. This followed the withdrawal of the Rapid Antigen Test the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had insisted passengers from Nigeria travelling to Dubai […]
On Tuesday hundreds of air travellers due to check-in for their flights to international destinations were delayed for hours when the airlines reverted to manual system for passenger facilitation. This was because on May 31, 2021, Societe International Telecommunication Aeronautiques (SITA), which provides Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE), withdrew its services and the company, Arlington Securities […]
The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Hon. Nnolim Nnaji, has stressed the need for more funding of the aviation agencies to enable them cope with the increase in demands for air travel. Nnaji made this known in Abuja, during an interaction between the committee and the heads of agencies led by the Permanent […]
