Aviation experts have expressed fear over federal government’s designation of two Sudanese airlines to operate to the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, just as the world commemorates 20 years anniversary of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US by the militant terror organisation, al-Qaeda. Informed source from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) confirmed […]
International airlines that operate into Nigeria have started integrating their facilities to the new Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE) operated by RESA three months after SITA, which hitherto provided the service, pulled out. This means that soon the airlines would resume automated passenger facilitation after several weeks of manual check in that caused delays and […]
The cost of aircraft maintenance for Nigerian airlines overseas has become very expensive because of the drop in the value of the naira. According to industry experts, Nigerian operators would save about 35 per cent of the cost of aircraft maintenance, put at over $2.5 billion annually if the facility were located in the country. […]
Over the years Nigeria has not recorded tremendous growth in passenger traffic on domestic air transport. The development has been attributed to poor per capita income by industry stakeholders. Travel expert and organiser of Akwaaba African Travel Market, Ikechi Uko, while speaking with THISDAY, said more Nigerians would travel by air if there was improvement […]
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has commenced the trial run of the newly installed Category III Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Runway 18 Right, Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. The exercise which started on Monday indicated that the equipment is fully operational on test basis, even as all the ILS components – Localizer, Glide […]
