Author: Wole Shadare

The launch of Uganda Airlines recently could ginger Nigeria, Ghana and others to speed up processes for their own national airline. WOLE SHADARE takes a look at many African countries belief in national airline project amid failure of flag carrier airlines Uganda takes the lead Uganda may have set the tone for the revival of national airline as the country after 20 years relaunched a new carrier named Uganda Airline last week amid fanfare. The sing song…

Leading clearing, freight forwarding and total logistics services company, Mainland Cargo Options Limited (MCO), a subsidiary of Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO PLC), has announced the appointment of a new General Manager/CEO. He is Prince Aderemi Adejobi. Adejobi holds a Master of Finance degree from the Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in Marketing from the University of Lagos, a Master of Geographic Information Systems (MSc) degree from…

The Copernicus satellite will now undergo extensive testing, with its launch set for November 2020  Airbus has completed the ocean satellite ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6A’, and is now sending it on its first journey.  Its destination: Ottobrunn near Munich in Germany, where over the next six months the satellite will undergo an extensive series of tests at Industrieanlagen Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) to prove its readiness for space.    ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6’ will carry out high-precision measurements of ocean surface…

Despite the 17,230,438.000 passenger traffic recorded in 2018, the passenger traffic figure is still considered very low; an indication that only very few Nigerians take to travel both domestically and internationally with a population of about 200 million people. This is an increase from the previous number of 14,319,876.000 passenger traffic for 2017.  Airport data is updated yearly, averaging 14,049,233.500 people from December 2003 to 2018, with observations. The data reached an all-time high of 17,230,438.000…

The on-going airlift of pilgrims from Saudi Arabia may have run into a hitch occasioned by scarcity of aviation fuel, otherwise known as Jet A1. The situation has left over 200 Nigerian pilgrims stranded in the Holy Land; a situation that has affected airlines on charter operations specifically granted rights to airlift them to Saudi Arabia. There was scarcity of the commodity but the operators said the situation is getting with regular supply. Jet A1…

 Air Asia and Airbus have entered a multi-billion dollar deal for an additional 12 A330-900 and 30 A321XLR aircraft. The contract was signed by Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Chairman, AirAsia X Berhad and Guillaume Faury, Chief Executive Officer, Airbus in Kuala Lumpur today, in the presence of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the Prime Minister of Malaysia.  Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Chief Executive Officer, AirAsia Group, who was present at the signing, said: “This order reaffirms our…

Twenty years after its collapse, Uganda has launched a national airline, restoring its status as latest African country to revive its national airline.   Commercial services resumed on Tuesday with a flight from Entebbe to Nairobi in neighbouring Kenya that the airline hoped will usher in a profitable new era for the formerly debt-ridden brand. Uganda Airline said its fleet of twin-engined Bombardier CRJ-900 regional jet airliners will soon connect to destinations including Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania,…

  The return of Hadi Sirika to Aviation as a Minister has opened a vista of what he did and did not do in his first term. WOLE SHADARE writes that now is the opportunity to set aviation on perfect path Second coming Not a few believe that newly appointed Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika would be given the nod to complete what he started when he served for four years as Minister of State, Aviation. Sirika’s appointment…

Crisis to cost airline £120m  Nigerians are bracing up for planned British Airways strike that is expected to disrupt flights in and out of Nigeria. As a result, travellers and travel agents are working round the clock to see how they can reschedule or cancel their clients’ flights within that period in what may cost the British carrier around £120 million. The airline operates services to Lagos and Abuja with daily flights to the two…