Wole Shadare, Author at Aviation metric

Nigeria shifts focus to newer, more efficient airplanes

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Gone are the days when geriatric aircraft dominated the continent’s skies. Things are changing as Nigerian airlines are moving to newer aircraft. African airlines are also towing the same path. The concern of the high cost of maintenance of older airplanes and the high cost of aviation fuel is forcing them to acquire newer aircraft. In Nigeria, after the devastating plane crashes involving Bellview’s Flight 210 on October 22, 2015, Sosoliso Airline’s DC-9 Flight 1145 on December 10,…

Op-Ed: Nigeria needs huge investment in tourism to benefit from SAATM

Posted on November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Africa has the smallest number of air passengers, accounting for roughly two percent of global passenger and freight traffic. That small number is predominantly driven by international tourism – which is the number one determinant of who leads the air travel business to/from in the continent. However, with Africa’s rapid population growth and improving incomes, the continent is projected to lead the near doubling of global air travelers to 7.2 billion by 2035, according to…

Emirates well on the recovery path

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Emirates has reduced its half-year-loss and is “well on the recovery path with healthy revenue and a solid cash balance at the end of our first half of 2021-22”, it reported on November 10. The Dubai-airline group reported a net loss of AED 5.7 billion ($1.6 billion) compared to AED 14.1 billion between April and September 2020. Group EBITDA improved to AED 5.6 billion from AED -43 million. Group revenues including dnata were up to AED…

Extortion: Arik suspend staff with immediate effect

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Wole Shadare

The management of Arik Air (in Receivership) has suspended with immediate effect one of its staff caught by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for soliciting bribes at the domestic wing of the Murtala Mohammed International, Ikeja, Lagos, pending further investigations. The airline in a statement said while the management conducts its own internal investigation, “we wish to reassure FAAN of our cooperation on this matter if further investigation is required. We fully support…

FAAN apprehends Arik staff for extortion at Lagos airport

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Wole Shadare

A staff of Ari Air has been apprehended for soliciting a bribe from a traveller at the domestic wing of the Lagos airport by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Extortion by airline staff and security operatives has become one of the major concerns of the authority as it has promised to arrest any security official and airline officials soliciting bribes, an action that destroys the image of the country. This is coming as…

Kenya to auction abandoned aircraft as low as $50

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Kenya Airports Authority in an advert invited interested bidders for planes that have overstayed at their yards at the Jomo Kenyatta, Moi, Wilson and Lokichoggio airports. Owners of the aircraft lying uncollected at KAA airports are Somali Air force, Jetlink, Skyward, Eagle Aviation, Prestige Aviation, Fly540, Pan Africa Airways, and Planes for Africa. In 2019, KAA invited the public to buy uncollected items from its airports as part of a clean-up programme. Kenya Airports Authority…

ACFTA: Bridging fault lines in African air transport policy

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Wole Shadare

ACFTA and the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) still have a long way to go for effective implementation. WOLE SHADARE writes that the AU needs some institutional reforms to ensure that this plausible paper initiative becomes a reality Colonial demarcation Africa is home to half of the 32 landlocked developing countries that face special challenges associated with their lack of direct territorial access to the sea resulting in high transport and transit costs. The African…

Overland Airways Commences Lagos-Warri, Abuja-Warri Flights Nov 15

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Tourists, Businesses To Benefit : Overland Airways, one of Nigeria’s leading scheduled and charter airlines, will commence scheduled flights from Lagos to Warri, and from Abuja to Warri on November 15, 2021. Overland Airways’ Lagos-Warri and Abuja-Warri flights will operate daily. The flights will depart Lagos to Warri at 12:20 pm, and depart Warri to Lagos at 5:20 pm. Overland Airways flights from Warri to Abuja will depart at 1:50 pm, while the airline’s flights will…

African countries with highest airport charges

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Niger, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Bangui, Sierra Leone, Republic of Congo, and Nigeria top the list of African countries with high airport taxes. These airport taxes are as high as some European countries that have met stiff resistance from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Niamey, Niger Republic tops the list by charging passengers $162 on regional departure in African airports, followed by Monrovia (Liberia) $145; Guinea Bissau $137; Dakar, Senegal $116; Douala, Cameroon $115; Bangui $111; Freetown, Sierra…

United in grief 25 years after crash, scars still visible

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Wole Shadare

Flight 086 shattered my dream-Capt Okon Nov 7, sad reminder of my husband’s death-Uloma Afonja Twenty-five years after losing their breadwinners, loved ones in ADC Flight 086 inside the Itoikin River near Ikorodu, the pain is still very deep, the scare is still very visible as some families of victims of the 144 passengers and crew converged on the bank of the river where a cenotaph was erected to offer prayers. The sleepy Itoikin town…

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