Air Peace has announced plans to launch its Kano and Yola services on February 12 and 15 respectively. The services, the airline said, will cover Lagos-Kano-Lagos, Kano-Abuja-Kano, Lagos-Yola-Lagos and Abuja-Yola-Abuja. The carrier had earlier fixed February 19 for commencement of its flights from Lagos to Freetown in Sierra Leone, Banjul in The Gambia and Dakar […]
Africa’s most profitable airline, Ethiopian Airlines, on Saturday made history as it transported its passengers from the Bole International Airport Addis Ababa to the Murtala International Airport Lagos on a Boeing B777-300 ER plane operated by an all-female crew. The crew was made up of Captain Amsale Gualu, First Officer Tigist […]
Effective 10th July, ASKY Airlines, The Pan African Airline, launches daily flight operations between Lagos and Accra and between Accra and Abuja. This is in line with ASKY’s mission to seamlessly connect West and Central Africa, making business and leisure travel easy and reducing the flying time it takes to connect cities in the Region. […]
South Africa government yesterday deported 97 Nigerians resident in that country. The deportation may be the climax of the xenophobic attacks against black immigrants in South Africa in which over 100 Nigerians were allegedly killed. THISDAY learnt that the 97 Nigerians were deported from South Africa for civil and criminal offences; while six of […]
THISDAY investigations have revealed that the aviation industry in 2015 and 2016 lost over $2 billion investment from international financiers who wanted a stake in Nigeria air transport sector due to the prevailing economic downturn. Considering the huge potential market for aircraft maintenance in Nigeria, THISDAY gathered that in mid 2015, one European based aircraft […]