Two weeks ago, United Nigeria Airways marked its inaugural flight to Accra, Ghana from Nigeria, making it the third airline to commence operations into the West Coast, after Air Peace and Ibom Air. While United Nigeria operates from Abuja, the other two airlines operate from Lagos. United Nigeria used Bombardier CRJ 900 to open the […]
Recently West African leaders met in Abuja for the inauguration of West African Economic Summit where Nigeria pushed for the removal of structural and policy bottlenecks in travel and trade in order to boost economic growth of the sub-region It was long conceived that there would come a time when countries in West […]
It has been established that air travel in Africa is costly and cumbersome due to huge government taxes and immigration bureaucracies, a development that is retarding economic growth of the African continent. The Managing Director of Asky Airlines, Mr. Esayas WoldeMaria, who established the fact, while speaking recently at Accra Wiezo in Accra, Ghana after […]
International carriers have dominated the air travel market in West Africa, due to lack of capacity of indigenous airlines and intrigues by individual countries in the sub-region. Consequently, African airlines continue to struggle to have a piece of the market. With a population of about 429,312,101 and passenger traffic of over 21 million per annum, […]
Nigeria largest carrier, Air Peace marked its 8th anniversary and gave its customers and frequent flyers free flight tickets. The airline’s stations nationwide were decorated to reflect the celebrations and it has initiated a couple of social media activities to reward lucky customers with free flight tickets. The Spokesperson of Air Peace, Stanley Olisa, expressed […]
