Author: Wole Shadare

 Insists aircraft made an ’emergency landing’ Just as the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has yet to make its findings known, Chairman of Max Air, Alhaji Dahiru Bara’u Mangal attributed the incident that affected his aircraft shortly before landing at the Minna International Airport to ‘bad weather and power outage’ at the aerodrome. Mangal, in a statement which he personally signed, said, “Actually, it was not crash landing; rather an emergency landing and the reasons that…

Engine scraped runway surface AIB begins probe One of the airlines designated for this year’s Hajj, Max Air suffered a serious incident which occurred at the Runway 23 of the Minna International Airport, Niger State. The B747-400 with 560 pilgrims from Jeddah with registration number 5N-DBK suffered serious occurred during the final approach on the runway shortly after landing. Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Tunji Oketunbi said the accident…

The National Association of Nigerian Travel Agency has concluded plans to host nationwide training for International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Non-IATA registered travel agencies in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja at no cost. Tagged, IATA EasyPay Workshop for IATA and Non-IATA Agents, Mr. Bankole Bernard, President of the Association says the purpose of this workshop is to enlighten Travel Agents on the IATA EasyPay (IEP) plan. “IATA EasyPay (IEP) is a new payment method…

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…