Author: Wole Shadare

*Chairman faults company’s failure to remit dividends *Accuses airline of illegality     All may not be well with Medview Airlines as the chairman of the carrier; Sheikh Abdulmosen Al-Thunnayan is seeking to pull his investment out of the embattled airline. He is in dispute with the company over the company’s ‘failure to remit dividends due to him on his investment in Medview Airlines  and to render proper account of the company’s affairs’. He has…

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Muhammad Albakri, IATA’s Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East (AME), will be appointed Senior Vice President for Customer, Financial and Digital Services (CFDS), based in Geneva and effective 1 March 2021. At that time Aleks Popovich, who currently holds the position, will retire.  “Over the past 16 years Aleks has driven some of the most critical elements of IATA’s operations, while leading major transformational…

**Carriers need to have deep reflection-Balami   Nigerian airlines have been tasked to cooperate through code-share or merger as a way of getting them out of the woods and the threat of insolvency that is staring them in the face occasioned by COVID- 19. Chairman, Association of Aircraft Maintenance Organization of Nigeria (AAMON), Isaac David Balami, an aircraft engineer, while speaking with Woleshadarenews, lamented that a situation where three airlines schedule to fly to the…

The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and all its affiliate bodies in the aviation industry made good their threat to ground Bristow Helicopters over protracted labour issues. The union leaders and their members blocked the exit and entrance gates of the company with their vehicles to prevent any staff or visitors from gaining entrance into the company headquarters. Workers of the company who were also…

 Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Air Peace has sacked 75 of its pilots over disagreement in remuneration. The pilots sacked are across all fleets. Recall that recently, there’s been lingering conflict over pay cut and reviewed renumeration between the pilots and the management, which has finally culminated to the sacking of some pilots. Notably amongst those affected are those who were signatories to the agitations. Details shortly…..

**Spurn N30 million employment bond   From tomorrow, all pilots and engineers of Bristow Helicopters will proceed on indefinite strike action over what they described as ‘discriminatory policies and consistent victimization of Nigerians working for the carrier’. Their umbrella body, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) has backed their action for a total shutdown of all Bristow Helicopters operations from midnight Monday 3, 2020. They are about to take the action after…