Author: Wole Shadare

Emirates has enough cash to sit out for the next six to eight months but is not ruling out the need for extra funding if the recovery from the pandemic will take longer. This could be through the UAE government providing more equity or by adding more debt to the balance sheet. “We will discuss this with the government”, Emirates CEO Sir Tim Clark said during an online session of the World Aviation Festival talking…

Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu, has maintained that the decision to ground Azman Airlines after thorough audit that indicted the carrier over safety issues was not personal, but done in the overall interest of the industry. Nuhu, who spoke at the weekend in Lagos, however, disclosed that what happened to the airline was not a punitive measure, but the regulatory body’s responsibility and duty to guide and work with…

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned that the Single European Sky (SES) project to reform Europe’s air traffic management system faces collapse if European states do not support the European Commission’s proposals to reboot the stalled initiative. “The European Commission has been trying to deliver the benefits of SES since the early 2000s. But state inaction has meant that none of its targets have been met. New legislation, as proposed by the Commission,…