Some oil marketers have saturated the aviation industry with low quality jet fuel that crashed prices from N800 per litre to N600 per litre, a development that compromised on air safety, THISDAY has learnt. It was learnt that some of the oil marketers sourced the product from modular refineries and illegal facilities and sold DPK […]
Stakeholders have warned that if the challenges faced by domestic airlines in 2016 persist this year, the industry would go under. The year 2016 had many challenges for Nigerian airlines. Aviation fuel scarcity started from January that year till December. They faced the problem of accessing foreign exchange(fx) to take their aircraft for maintenance […]
It has been projected that airlines, air travellers and aviation agencies lost about N48 billion in 2016 to operational hiccups, inadequate supply of aviation fuel and the attendant high prices. These losses were said to have been incurred by passengers who lost businesses due to flight delays and cancellations; airlines that cancelled flights after expending […]
Domestic airline operators have called on the federal government and concerned authorities to take urgent measures to ensure availability of aviation fuel, otherwise known as Jet A1. They warned that if no urgent action was taken to supply the product, they may be forced to suspend their services. Some of the operators who spoke to […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has advised airlines to reduce flight operations as they cannot source aviation fuel to meet their schedule obligations, instead of allowing passengers to come to the airport and become stranded. Spokesman of the agency, Sam Adurogboye, said on Tuesday that NCAA was making every effort possible to help the […]
