The CEO of African Aviation Services, industry consultant and organsier of MRO Africa, Nick Fadugba, has called on African states to remove all barriers to air transport on the continent to enhance interconnectivity because as catalyst to economic growth aviation would enhance trade, create more jobs and boost the GDP of countries that fully embraced […]
Aviation stakeholders in Africa have called for partnerships and the elimination of diplomatic boundaries to enhance connectivity among African countries in order to boost trade and create more jobs for teeming youths on the continent. The stakeholders who met with other aviation experts, suppliers, aircraft manufacturers and others from different parts of the world, yesterday, […]
The Managing Director and CEO of Nigeria’s oldest carrier, Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi, said despite the challenges the airline faced in the last few years, it is now in a rebound. Excerpts. Give a little genesis of when you took over as CEO of Aero Contractors before you left and later came back. What […]
During a recent Aviation Round Table (ART) breakfast meeting in Lagos, stakeholders agreed that one of the major challenges faced by Nigerian airlines is the maintenance of their aircraft overseas. The stakeholders agreed that Nigerian carriers spend over $1.5 billion annually on aircraft maintenance. Ferrying the aircraft overseas, allowances for the crew, foreign exchange and […]
With the dawn of New Year in the next 48 hours, aircraft engineers in the Nigerian aviation industry say that the greatest gift that could be given to domestic carriers is to have local maintenance facility that can conduct checks on at least 70 per cent of Nigeria’s commercial aircraft. To make this possible there […]
