Wole Shadare, Author at Aviation metric

Delta airline suspends New York to Lagos flights over low demand

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Effective October 4, 2022, Delta Air Lines will suspend its flights between New York JFK airport and Lagos. The airline disclosed this via a statement, stating that the route suspension was to fit into “the current demand environment.” The statement read, “Delta is suspending its nonstop service between New York-JFK and Lagos to fit the current demand environment. “The airline continues to operate service between Lagos and Atlanta and offers onward connections to New York…

Kenya Airways appoints LLC as GSA in Oman

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ) has appointed Travel Point LLC as its General Sales Agent (GSA) for Oman. Travel Point LLC takes full responsibility for selling airline products in Oman, handling the needs of the travel trade and KQ customers, hence growing KQ’s market share in the Oman market. The General Sales Agent will represent the interests of KQ in the Oman market including communication with all relevant stakeholders and customers, reservations, and…

Buhari signs Civil Aviation, Metrological Agency, six other bills into law

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Wole Shadare

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Civil Aviation Act, the Nigerian Metrological Agency, and six other bills recently passed by the National Assembly into law. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters (House of Representatives, Bashir Babale Illah, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Monday listed the other bills signed by the President as the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria establishment bill and the Nigeria Council for Management Development…

Ugorji emerges 2022 Landover Aviation Business School IATA Best Performer In Nigeria

Posted on August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 by Wole Shadare

LABS produces IATA Best Performers for 9th Time Since 2012 Landover Aviation Business School (LABS) has again produced the Best Performer in Nigeria in the July 2022 Diet of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Foundation in the Travel and Tourism Course. Mr. Eze Victor Ugorji, the best performing graduate, achieved a distinction in the July 2022 Diet of IATA Foundation in the Travel and Tourism Course and was crowned IATA’s Overall Best Performer…

Trapped funds: Follow Nigeria’s example, IATA tells Ethiopia, Algeria, others, lauds FG

Posted on August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Wants $200 million balance trapped funds The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the clearing house for over 200 international airlines said it would continue to engage the Nigerian government with a view to expediting the release of the remaining amount so that airlines can afford to serve Nigeria and other African countries where their funds are trapped. Nigeria is among countries in Africa that are keeping airlines’ funds. Other countries keeping airlines’ funds are…

Merger panic grips aviation as SGF receives Oronsanye report

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Wole Shadare

May fuse NCAA, NAMA, NiMet, stakeholders kick Recommends FAAN’s privatisation The submission of the Steve Oronsaye report to the Secretary to the Federal Government, Boss Mustapha last week Friday is beginning to unsettle nerves in the nation’s aviation industry. Not a few thought that the Federal Government had jettisoned the controversial decision to merge many of the Ministry, Department, or Agency (MDAs) to save costs. The Oronsaye committee last year made recommendations in its…

Reps ask foreign carriers to jettison planned sale of tickets in dollars

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Emirates rescinds decision leave Nigeria Sept 1, reinstates flights Cuts frequencies to four from 14 The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has asked foreign airlines wishing to sell tickets in the United States dollars because of the difficulty they encountered in repatriating the proceeds of their ticket sales to discontinue the idea. It said doing so would put enormous pressure on intending travelers and make it extremely difficult for people to travel. This…

Deputy General Manager, NAMA, Evelyn Njoku becomes Fellow NIPR

Posted on August 28, 2022August 28, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Deputy General Manager, Public Affairs, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Evelyn Njoku has been inaugurated as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations after a rigorous presentation and other screening processes. She was last week inaugurated during the 2022 NIPR Summit and Annual General Meeting at the International Conference Center in Abuja. Njoku expressed gratitude to the Acting Managing Director of NAMA, Mr. Lawrence Pwajok, the management and staff of the…

CBN bows to pressure, releases $265 million out of $464 million airlines trapped funds

Posted on August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 by Wole Shadare

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have bowed to both internal and external pressure as the country’s apex Bank released the sum of $265 million out of the total $464 million trapped funds to the carriers. Just this week, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos that the Federal Government was working on resolving the impasse arising from keeping the airlines’ funds in the country. The…

Former NCAA DG, Demuren proposes sale of First, Business class tickets in dollars

Posted on August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Says keeping carriers’ funds, dangerous How Abdulmutallab, raised security apparatus in Nigerian aviation-Experts A former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Dr. Harold Demuren has proposed a way at solving the embroglio between Nigeria and foreign airlines over the carriers’ $464 million trapped funds. Demuren had at the Aviation Round Table (ART) second quarter 2022 Breakfast Business Meeting, with the theme, “Perspective in Multi-Layer Aviation Security System and Passenger Facilitation”, held…

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