Aviation

A Bleak Future for Domestic Airlines

With rising price of aviation fuel, depreciating naira and high airfares, which has depleted passenger traffic, experts fear that some Nigerian carriers may go aground. Many airlines that went under in Nigeria did so at operational crisis point, and this could happen during scarcity of aviation fuel, high exchange rate, some inimical government policies that […]

Chairman/CEO Air Peace, Allen Onyema Aviation

Airline Operators Deny Fixing Base Fare, Lament Loss of N44bn to Bird Strike, Flight Cancellations

The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has denied fixing base fare for economy flight tickets at N50, 000 as travellers insisted that the sudden increase in fares suggested collusion by the association. The operators also complained that in 2021, they lost $60 million (N24 billon) to bird strike alone. The amount was used to replace […]

Aviation

NANTA Berates Government for Unfavourable Policies in Aviation Sector

The president of the National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA), Bernard Bankole has berated the federal government for its retrogressive policies in the aviation industry.   Bankole observed that poor government policies are killing the country’s aviation business and stripping it’s the opportunity to grow and attract international investment.   Bankole made this known […]