Author: Wole Shadare

New interline increases Emirates’ footprint to 148 African points   Emirates and Kenya Airways (KQ) have announced an interline partnership that will allow customers of both airlines access to new destinations on the two airlines’ networks within a single itinerary. The agreement will provide customers with increased travel options as well as seamless baggage check-in to their final destination. Emirates customers will now be able to fly to 28 destinations on the Kenya Airways network…

Advices airlines to merge to form strong flag carriers       President of Aviation Safety Round Table (ASRT) Dr. Gabriel Olowo has called for a private sector-driven airline urging that government should not try in any way to involve itself completely in a new national carrier just as the expert threw his weight behind a national airline for Nigeria. In his advice to the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu tagged, “National Carrier…

Welcomes probe, flays airlines, Nnaji, others for conspiracy to truncate carrier   Former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has opened up on the controversies that trailed the Nigeria Air project, saying that only N5billion was made available for the project contrary to insinuation in some quarters that N85 billion was ‘squandered’ on the proposed carrier. The Minister had come under fire and scrutiny for the way and manner the national carrier project was pursued with…