NAMA boss: Establishing strong airline needs govt input The federal government has faulted the claim by the Ethiopian Airlines’ Chief Executive, Tewolde Gebremariam, that the airline is favoured to establish and manage the new ‘Nigeria Air.’ This is coming as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Captain Fola Akinkuotu has said […]
The Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema said he supports the idea of establishing the proposed national carrier – Nigeria Air,as long as it follows due process, saying that the federal government must create a level playing field for all operators. Onyema who spoke at recent League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents seminar noted that […]
Nigeria has a large population of international travellers, which is average of about 4.5 million annually. Over 90 per cent of these passengers are airlifted by foreign airlines. This is because Nigeria does not have local carriers that have successfully operated international destinations for a number of years. So, most of the Bilateral Air Service […]
The federal government has reacted to the criticism over its commitment of $300 million in the national carrier projects, Nigeria Air, while it intends to have only five per cent equity. Government had earlier explained that it would spend $8.8 million as preliminary cost, $300 million as take off cost for the national carrier and […]
Many Nigerians are excited that Nigeria will soon establish a national carrier, which will be a major airline to compete with mega carrier of the world, but others with hindsight are circumspect, sceptical that the Nigerian government has never spearheaded a successful airline, writes Chinedu Eze. The gains of a national carrier are invaluable. A […]
