Industry stakeholders have appealed to the federal government to wade into the industrial dispute rocking some of the airlines which saw the disruption of flight operations this week. The stakeholders said most of the airlines are in precarious state since they resumed after the COVID-19 lockdown, insisting that without bailout or any form of financial […]
The National Union of Air Transport Employees NUATE and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN in Arik Air on Monday paralysed Arik Air operations and left its passengers stranded over the failure of the organisation to pay severance package to retiring workers. Passengers travelling from Owerri, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Jos, Abuja, […]
Nigerian major carrier, Arik Air, has written a letter of appeal to the Minister of Labour and Employment, urging him to interface with the aviation unions that threatened to disrupt the airline’s operations over workers’ welfare and non-payment of allowances. Arik Air in the letter sought the understanding and cooperation of the unions; while explaining […]
The low passenger traffic and industrial disruptions are making it extremely difficult for the airlines to continue as going concerns, writes Chinedu Eze When Nigerians airlines were pushing for the resumption of flight operations after the coronavirus lockdown, many of them knew that passenger traffic would be low, but there were others who were sanguine. […]
Aviation is said to be international because it follows uniform standard regulation, principles and documentations globally. So a pilot of Boeing B737 can work for any airline in the world and fly the same aircraft type. It is also the same with an engineer or cabin crew rated in the same aircraft type. Many Nigerians […]
