Industry consultant and CEO of Belujane Konsult, Chris Aligbe has said the National Assembly is contributing to the retardation of the aviation industry and called for the transparent concession of airport facilities. Before the Senate backed down on Tuesday, the members opposed the planned closure of the Abuja airport for comprehensive work on the runway. […]
Nigerian airlines have said that most of the operators may end schedule flight services this year, unless government takes urgent steps to resolve lingering issues that have hampered their operations. THISDAY checks at the domestic airside of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Wednesday revealed that many aircraft owned by domestic carriers are not […]
The Chairman of Arik Air, Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide spoke on the challenges that hampered the operations of local airlines in 2016. Excerpts: Arik Air must have lost huge revenue when the unions stopped your operations for one day? We had held talks with labour and we seem to be agreeing on certain issues they […]
Nigerian airlines may be forced to stop operation if Lloyd’s carries out its threat to blacklist and downgrade Nigerian airlines over their inability to pay insurance premium. The airlines are already beset by paucity and high price of aviation fuel, low passenger traffic as well inability to obtain foreign exchange to meet their aircraft and […]
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s leading insurance market, has issued a warning to Nigerian airline operators that it might be forced to blacklist the country in the face of continued failure of some operators to fulfill their obligations of paying their premiums to the insurer regularly. Nigerian airlines have been finding it increasingly difficult to […]