NCAA: Air France to Airlift Passengers to Abuja by 9:30 Monday About 61 Nigerian passengers on an Air France flight from Paris to Abuja were stranded in Chad after an unexpected flight disruption due to technical hitches. The aircraft, which had earlier made a stop in Chad to drop off some passengers enroute Abuja, left the Nigerians stranded without engagement on […]
The ongoing audit of Dana Air by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority and the airline’s disengagement of most of its staff have fueled uncertainty about its future, casting light on the short life span of Nigerian carriers. Last week, Dana Air announced the disengagement of most of its workforce, as the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority […]
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has responded to the statement by the former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, who condemned the return of Emirates Airlines to Nigeria after two years hiatus. In condemning the return of the airline to Nigeria, Chidoka chided the federal government for showing so much excitement that the […]
There is palpable fear among the workforce of Nigeria’s mid-sized airline, Dana Air, over the future and survival of the airline following its disengagement of its workers estimated at 500 after many years of struggle to keep its aircraft in the sky. The disengagement of the workers followed the recent suspension of the airline by […]
Many aviation insiders believed that if public servants are forced by law to patronise Nigerian airlines while travelling overseas, it will keep in the country huge amount of money that would have been otherwise repatriated by foreign airlines. Industry observers believed that such revenues would have strengthened domestic airlines that operate international routes and reduce […]
