Wole Shadare, Author at Aviation metric

No cracks in MMA2 parking lot pillars – BASL

Posted on November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two, Lagos (MMA2) has assured stakeholders of safety at the parking lot and other facilities at the Terminal. BASL gave the assurance in response to the picture of supposedly cracked pillars at the parking lot trending on social media. Group Corporate Affairs Manager of BASL, Mikail Mumuni, in a statement on Sunday said “there are no cracked pillars at the parking lot.” He…

Red List: South Africa disappointed by UK’s decision

Posted on November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is disappointed following announcements by the UK to place South Africa back on the red list together with five neighbouring African countries following the announcement by the country’s health department. Japan, Israel, and the European Union have all moved to place stricter measures against South African traveling to their part of the world. This follows an announcement by the Department of Health that a new variant of the coronavirus has been…

AASA urges UK to reconsider decision to ‘Red List’ Southern African nations

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Wole Shadare

The decision to add South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and Namibia to the United Kingdom’s rest following the outbreak of a new COVID-19 variant is not going unchallenged. The travel restrictions placed on the Souther African nations take effect from today. To this end, the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) noted with distress the UK Government’s announcement that it will place South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Eswatini back onto its “Red…

Nigeria Air: FG to float IPO, begins operations with three aircraft

Posted on November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 by Wole Shadare

The Federal Government on Thursday announced that beginning from next week it would start sending out Request for Proposals to investors interested in owning shares in the proposed national carrier. It also expressed hope that the carrier, Nigeria Air, would be quoted on the stock exchange, adding that Nigerians would be allowed to buy shares in the airline that was being planned to commence operations with three leased aircraft. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi…

New, fuel-efficient aircraft as game-changer for Nigerian airlines

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Nigerian airlines are changing strategy with a shift from the operation of ‘old’ aircraft to more efficient, fuel-saving airplanes. WOLE SHADARE writes that this could be a game-changer Proving naysayers wrong The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on air travel and aviation were massive. All over the world, the future of airlines was bleak, fueling suspicion that it could take the sector more than four years to return to full recovery. For the…

FG to hold 5% equity, entrepreneurs 46%, 49% foreign investors in new carrier

Posted on November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 by Wole Shadare

New airline, Nigeria Air takes off April 2022-Minister The long-awaited national carrier for Nigeria could see the light of day as the Nigerian government has set April 2022 for the take-off of the long-anticipated airline, Air Nigeria. Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika made the disclosure on Wednesday after the week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Minister stated that government would hold a 5%…

Kenya Airways, SAA Sign Deal To Co-Start Pan African Airline Group

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Wole Shadare

In what could be the first of its kind in Africa, Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways PLC (KQ), has signed a Strategic Partnership Framework today with South African Airways (SAA), a key milestone towards co-starting a Pan African Airline Group by 2023. The partnership framework follows the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) that the two airlines signed two months ago to foster the exchange of knowledge, expertise, innovation, digital technologies, and best practice between the two…

Normalcy returns, flights resume at all airports

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Wole Shadare

NAMA MD, NCAA DG, controllers hold fresh meeting Normal flight operations have resumed at all the airports as the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has intervened in the situation that led to air traffic controllers slowing down air traffic following a protest over the death of one of their colleagues. The Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu in a statement made available to Aviation Metric said, “NAMA hereby wishes to inform the…

Adopt simple, practicable measures to facilitate travel, IATA tells govts

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Wole Shadare

As borders reopen after several months of the Covid-19 hiatus, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on governments to adopt simple, predictable, and practical measures to safely and efficiently facilitate the ramping-up of international travel. Specifically, IATA urged governments to focus on three key areas such as simplified health protocols, digital solutions to process health credentials, and COVID-19 measures proportionate to risk levels with a continuous review process IATA was worried about the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Apprehension as controllers embark on warning strike, slow traffic

Posted on November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 by Wole Shadare

NAMA working to resolve crisis, airlines cry out How Effiong’s death triggered controllers’ action Passengers travelling within the country yesterday were subjected to delays which in some cases led to flight cancellation as air traffic controllers embarked on a warning strike. They are to do this by slowing down traffic flow, placing departure time by 20 minutes on domestic flights at the four major airports in Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, and Kano. The Nigerian…

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