The Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika has urged entrepreneurs to invest in the aviation to ensure the growth and development within the industry, which he described as catalyst to economic development. Sirika made the call at the Nigeroa Stock Exchange, Lagos when Nigeria’s major domestic airline, Med-View listed 9.75billion ordinary shares on Tuesday. The […]
Some stakeholders in the aviation industry have said that harsh operating environment, including disincentive government policies, high cost of doing business and scarcity of aviation fuel are discouraging investors from the sector. In the past four years there have been more commercial airlines that went under than the ones that came in and in the last two years it is only Air Peace […]
Last week Medview Airline started flights on the West coast routes, from Accra via Monrovia to Freetown. During its inaugural flight, the airline’s CEO, AlhajiMuneer Bankole spoke on the need for the federal government to support domestic airlines because they project the image of the country. What is the cost implication of this route development? The advantage of flying this route is that the entire countries after Nigeria do […]
Airlines and passengers are counting their losses as high cost of aviation fuel and harmattan haze are dealing a heavy blow on the industry right now. Air ticket prices for domestic flights rose by over 200 per cent since mid December due to high cost of aviation fuel and high passenger traffic due to rush […]
The Chief Executive Officer of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole has assured about105 passengers who flew from London to Lagos last week without their checked-in luggage that all the bags would be delivered by the end of this weekend. Bankole gave the assurance Thursday when he addressed aggrieved passengers at the airline’s head office in […]