Airports

United Receives FAA Certification for First Starlink-Equipped Mainline Aircraft

United today announced the FAA certified its first mainline Starlink-equipped aircraft, and the first commercial flight is planned for October 15. This certification comes less than five months since the first Starlink-equipped United customer flight on the Embraer 175 regional aircraft and less than a year since United signed the industry’s largest agreement of its […]

Airports

TSA Begins Security Audit of Nigeria’s Major Airports to Sustain Nigeria-US Commercial Flight Operations

For commercial flights to continue to operate between Nigeria and the United States (US), a team from the US Transport Security Administration (TSA)is in the country to carry out security audit on the nation’s major airports. The objective of the assessment is to ensure that Nigerian airports still maintains given security standards, which prompted the […]

Airlines

NCAA Confirms United Airlines’ Incident, Visits Injured in Hospital to Give Them Support

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed the mid-flight incident suffered by United Airlines Flight UA614 on Thursday, January 23, when it left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to Washington, United States, but was forced to declare emergency and made air return after about two hours of flight out of the departure airport. […]

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United Airlines Marks Five Years of Non-Stop Flights Between Cape Town and New York/Newark

First U.S. carrier to operate between Cape Town and North America Since 2019, United has operated over 1,500 flights, carrying over 345,000 passengers and 2,000 tonnes of cargo between Cape Town and its hubs at New York/Newark and Washington D.C. By Chibuike Eze United Airlines is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its non-stop flights between […]