By the time the year ends, the Federal Government may have generated over $100 million (N37bn) going by the exchange rate of N360 to from $20 security levy collected from little over five million passengers exiting the country through any of the international airports. A total of 2,505,612 passengers passed through Nigerian airports in the first quarter of 2017, 67.3 per cent of them being domestic passengers, travelling within Nigeria, while the rest were international…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has appointed Med-View Airline through National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA to participate in the evacuation of 5,037 Nigerians facing social challenges of various degrees in Northern African country, Libya. An agreement to that effect was signed at the NEMA headquarters in Abuja on December 29, 2017 between the two organisations to facilitate smooth airlifting of Nigerians out of the troubled zone. Med-View will be participating in the airlifting of 5,037…

Alexandre de Juniac is the Director General and CEO, International Air Transport Association (IATA). In this piece he sends to Woleshadare.net, he speaks on how aviation has continued to change the world we live in. ​Air travel takes on a special character at this time of year. There are noticeably fewer business travelers. And airports and planes are filled with people traveling for leisure. Some are reuniting with families to spend the holidays together after working…

Seek NCAA’s intervention Airline blames weather This seems not to be the best of time for Medview passengers in London, Dubai and Lagos as irate travellers who were not able to travel to their various destinations have vented their anger on the airline workers by assaulting them. In Lagos, hundreds of passengers of the airline yesterday attacked officials of Med-View Airline over the cancellation of their flights out of the country. Not satisfied with taking…

Holds emergency security meeting It’s insiders’ job-Ojikutu The security lapses at the country may have found expression at the nation’s airports, particularly at the Murtala Muhammed Airports, Lagos as bandits have continued to rob airlines taxiing to their final stops. Consequently, the high echelon of security operatives met today trying to investigate the incident. While the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) denied such incident ever happened, but a source close to the operations of…

As part of efforts to ensure that its guests continue to enjoy best fares on its flights, one of Nigeria’s leading airlines Dana Air, has launched the Dana Air Smart Sale to encourage its guests to book early, plan their trips and get smart fares on their roundtrip booking on all its existing routes from December 26th to February 28th 2018. The airline also celebrated and appreciated the efforts of travel agents in 2017 with Christmas gifts…

The era of flight disruptions occasioned by harmattan or inclement weather could be a thing of the past as the Federal Government has concluded plans to install multi-million dollar Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at Lagos and Kano airports. The tools, Woleshadare.net learnt, are Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and VHF omnidirectional range (VOR). The DME is a navigation beacon, usually coupled to enable aircraft to measure their position relative to that beacon. Aircraft send out signal,…