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 […]
Aero Contractors can rescue other Nigerian airlines if it expands its maintenance facility as many of them may not be disposed to robust financial outlay to continue to conduct overseas checks on their equipment. The resurgence of Aero Contractors after five months of suspending its scheduled commercial service due to financial challenges, no doubt, has […]
In a bid to meet the growing demand of other indigenous airlines on aircraft repairs and maintenance, Nigeria’s oldest carrier, Aero Contractors has started expanding it’s maintenance facility to take in more aircraft. The airline has also announced that it will resume flight operations on December 5, with six aircraft to service 10 destinations as […]
Since it became public that the federal government is in talks with Africa’s most profitable carrier, Ethiopian Airlines as its choice of core investor/ technical partner for the planned national carrier, Nigeria Air, industry stakeholders have reacted differently to the report. Last week, a team from the Ministry of Aviation met with Ethiopian Airlines management […]
