Wole Shadare, Author at Aviation metric

Uriesi: Ibom Air has no intention to fly beyond Africa

Posted on September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 by Wole Shadare

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ibom Air, George Uriesi has disclosed that the airline has no intention of operating beyond the shores of Africa. He stated that the carrier’s operations would concentrate on regional flight operations and flights within the continent. Uriesi made the closure recently at the pre-Aviation Africa Summit which ended in Abuja last week. The carrier may have taken lessons from airlines that started small and ventured on intercontinental routes without…

IOSA airlines record higher safety performance as agency clocks 20

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Wole Shadare

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) marked the first 20 years of the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) at the IATA World Safety and Operations Conference taking place in Hanoi, Vietnam. Since 2005, the all-accident rate for airlines on the IOSA registry is 1.40 per million sectors, compared with 3.49 per million sectors for non-IOSA airlines. In 2022, IOSA-registered carriers outperformed those not on the registry by a factor of four (0.70 accidents per million…

Boeing forecasts 1,025 airplanes for Africa in next 20 years

Posted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by Wole Shadare

21,000 pilots, 22,000 technicians, 26,000 cabin crew members needed Aircraft giant, Boeing has projected that intra-African passenger traffic will more than quadruple in the next twenty years, placing the continent’s growth among the highest globally. To support this, 1,025 new airplanes will be needed over the next two decades. Overall African air traffic growth is forecast at 7.4%, the third highest among global regions and above the global average growth of 6.1%. Boeing included the…

FlyNamibia Joins Ranks of IATA Members

Posted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by Wole Shadare

FlyNamibia has joined the ranks of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) membership. This significant milestone not only marks an extraordinary achievement for FlyNamibia but also signifies a promising future for the airline industry in Namibia and beyond. IATA, with its mission to represent, lead, and serve the global airline industry, stands as the collective voice of approximately 300 airlines hailing from more than 120 countries worldwide. The core vision that propels IATA’s actions is…

Airlines’ trapped funds hit $783 million August 2023

Posted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by Wole Shadare

*IATA welcomes Nigeria’s FAAN’s repair of Lagos airport IATA, FAAN back Lagos int’l airport corrective action plan The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomes the commitment of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to improving infrastructure and service levels at Lagos’s Murtala Muhammad International Airport within twelve months. This follows a number of safety, security, and passenger service level concerns in Lagos airport raised by IATA member airlines over the past year. This…

Couple recount unpleasant experience at Lagos airport amid relocation conundrum

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Wole Shadare

Keyamo approves old terminal D wing for use The relocation order issued to airlines by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo to relocate to the new Lagos airport terminal has caused so much pain to the users of the facility and airlines that are having to manage their operations which has put a lot of travelers to so much pain. Yes, the situation may have improved by many others have…

Arik Owners Must Present Sensible Resolution Strategy To AMCON, CBN, Ministry Of Finance – Kuru Insists

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Wole Shadare

The Managing Director of Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Ahmed Lawan Kuru said the challenge of Sir Arumemi Johnson’s Arik Air Limited (in Receivership) to recover his airline may seem difficult, but not irredeemable, stressing that there is always a way out of every resolution situation. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of AMCON who was in Lagos on Monday to field questions from the media regarding developments in the aviation portfolio especially in the…

Nigerian carriers in financial dire straits-DG NCAA

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Wole Shadare

Nigerian airlines are in dire financial straits and this is a reflection of the difficult economy under which they find themselves operating. Director General Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu has expressed concern over the state of the country’s airlines, saying that they are in serious financial straits. Nuhu who spoke at the just concluded 7th Aviation Africa Summit in Abuja noted that what the carriers are currently going through is a…

AMCON sells truncated stage five NG Eagle’s AOC

Posted on September 18, 2023September 18, 2023 by Wole Shadare

Why Arik is insolvent, plans conditional exit-Kuru The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Ahmed Lawan Kuru stated that the frustration encountered by the firm in setting up NG Eagle led it to sell the last stages of its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) to an unnamed company which plans to begin air operations. The NG project was truncated at stage five of the process of getting its Air Operator Certificate (AOC). The NG Eagle’s AOC…

Sosoliso crash spurs low-level windshear project, vandal activities worry NiMet DG

Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 by Wole Shadare

Why Nigeria won’t experience Morocco, Libya disasters The Director-General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Prof. Mansur Matazu said his agency embarked on an aggressive Low-Level Windshear Alert System (LLWAS) project after the Sosoliso crash of December 10, 2005, describing it as a phenomenon that was very ‘dicey’ and ‘dynamic’ because the accident happened within seconds. On the afternoon of December 10, 2005, a landmark aircraft accident occurred at the Port-Harcourt International Airport. The tragic accident…

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