Major accident was averted Tuesday evening when Azman Air flight coming from Abuja landed and busted one of its tyres at the 18L runway of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. No casualty was recorded among the over 100 passengers on board the flight, as they were quickly evacuated. The aircraft could not move […]
Air fares have started coming down after the Yuletide celebration as passenger traffic has dropped at the airports. THISDAY checks revealed that there has been reduction in passenger traffic on many of the routes, but the Abuja-Lagos; Lagos-Abuja and Abuja-Owerri; Owerri-Lagos routes still record high traffic, even. However, the cost of economy class has come […]
The Group Managing Director of Finchglow Group and Chairman, Airlines and Passengers Joint Committee, Mr. Bankole Bernard has said that despite the ravaging effects of the second phase of the coronavirus as well as efforts by the federal government to curtail its spread, Nigerians should not be stopped from traveling overseas because the country is […]
Airport users and aviation security experts have expressed concern over illicit activities by persons employed as cleaners at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. THISDAY investigations revealed that the concessionaire to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which recruited the cleaners, allegedly pays them N15, 000 monthly and most often the payment is […]
Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika has told the House of Representatives that only 14.29% of the total workforce of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) working at the terminal buildings which according to him are the items for concession would be transferred to the would-be concessionaires. This is just as he kept insisting […]
