When the federal government acquired aircraft for the calibration of navigational facilities last August at $8.5 million, the industry was jubilant. With that development, many stakeholders said the issue of contracting the job of calibration to ASECNA, aeronautical company of French-speaking West African nations, would now come to an end. But after the acquisition nothing […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has refuted the claim by the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) that Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos lacks facilities to enhance landing by foreign airlines. It said contrary to the claim, it had provided the needed lighting system for […]
Major foreign carriers yesterday diverted their Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA); Lagos bound flights to Accra, Ghana due to no functional Instrument Landing System (ILS). THISDAY investigation revealed that on Tuesday and Monday, UK mega carrier, British Airways diverted its flights to Accra, Ghana because the pilots did not want to land at the Lagos […]
Writer highlights the high and low points in the aviation sector in the outgoing year. The aviation industry in 2019 recorded less number of operating airlines than the previous years; few number of operating aircraft; fewer number of people employed in the aviation industry, as many airlines went under and their workers lost jobs; but […]
In a bid to facilitate the development and implementation of a National Air Navigation Plan, National Aviation System Block Upgrade (ASBU) Plan, National Air Traffic Management Plan as well as other International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) new concepts in Nigeria, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has created a National Air Navigation Planning unit, vested […]
