Nigeria-based major cargo carrier, Allied Air has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-800 converted freighter. The airline said aircraft is worth about N8 billion and it is the first for cargo airlines in Africa, adding that the freighter (MSN 36846) is the youngest 737-800 in the world that has been converted to-date. Allied Air […]
The present disagreement over issues concerning the concession of airports may pit aviation workers against government, members of the trade union have warned. Currently labour has become intransigent over the issue, insisting that there is lack of sincerity in the whole process. On the other hand, the government has said there was no going back […]
While members of the labour unions have vowed to abort federal government’s plane to concession major airports in the country, industry stakeholders insist concession is the key to airport development. Over the years attempts have been made to bring in private investors to inject money in airport development, but labour unions in the industry have […]
Olumide. O. Ohunayo The industry went into wild jubilation when the government announced in the last quarter of last year that it had purchased a new set of Instrument Landing System (ILS) CAT 3 to be precise for Lagos and Abuja airports respectively which was installed while the functional CAT 2 ILS in these airports […]
As Nigeria turns 59, the aviation industry has recorded progress but experts posit that the sector is not where it ought to be. Before Nigeria’s independence, Nigeria along with some West African countries had one national carrier, the West Africa Airways Corporation (WAAC), which started in 1946 and went under in 1958, when the Nigeria […]
