Passenger System-wide, airlines carried 4.4 billion passengers on scheduled services, an increase of 6.9% over 2017, representing an additional 284 million trips by air. The development of the low-cost carrier (LCC)* segment continues to outpace that of network carriers. Measured in ASKs (available seat kilometers), LCC capacity grew by 13.4%, almost doubling the overall industry […]
Nigerian airports recorded 36,350 domestic and 5,395 international flight delays in 2018. This was disclosed by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) in its executive summary published on its website. The records showed that two leading domestic airlines – Air Peace and Arik Air – topped the list of the domestic air flight delay list. […]
The International Civil Aviation Organisation and the International Air Transport Association project that globally airlines may transport more passengers in 2019 than last year, just as they frowned at the rate of air accidents in 2018. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has indicated that globally more passengers would travel by air in 2019. It […]
For more than a decade, Nigeria has recorded fewer aircraft operating scheduled services. There has also been a sharp decline in passenger traffic and the number of domestic airlines. Writer examines the factors responsible for this slide in an environment with one of the fastest population growth rates in the world. It was predicted that […]
A decade after construction began, Senegal opened a new airport on Thursday, the centerpiece of an ambitious plan to try to catapult the nation to become a top economic player in West Africa. President Macky Sall and other officials gathered at the $575 million airport, about a 90-minute drive from the center of Dakar, the […]
