Author: Wole Shadare

  America’s flag carrier airline, Delta Air Lines is marking a successful first 12 months of flying between Lagos and New York-JFK. The nonstop flight started on March 26, 2018 and operates three times a week. Delta also flies nonstop between Lagos and Atlanta four times a week, meaning Nigerians have a daily connection to the United States.  Over the past year, Delta’s Lagos-New York-JFK service has: ·         Had an average load factor of 84…

The Lagos State chapter of the National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE) yesterday announced its plans to host its Biennial General Meeting and elections alongside its annual symposium in Lagos. In an official statement issued yesterday, the body stated that the event will hold on the 28th March, 2019 at the Welcome Centre Hotels, along the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) road, Lagos with the theme: “Cyber Threat In Aviation Industry: The Role of…

 Airbus and China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS) have signed a General Terms Agreement (GTA) covering the purchase by Chinese airlines of a total of 300 Airbus aircraft. The GTA was signed in Paris, France by Guillaume Faury, President of Airbus Commercial Aircraft and future Airbus CEO, and Jia Baojun, Chairman of CAS, in the presence of visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron.  The GTA comprises of 290 A320 Family aircraft and 10 A350…

The spat between Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines over who should be held responsible for the crash of Flight 302 came to many as a surprise. WOLE SHADARE writes that Boeing accidents are another reminder that safety policies can have unintended fatal consequences   Public concern Why does it take an air crash to raise public concern about aviation safety? Even though air travel is still the safest means of transportation (based on the percentage of…

Nigeria-born International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Council President, Dr. Bernard Olumiyiwa Aliu, has urged Nigeria and Africa to address its aviation infrastructure gaps, given current and high levels of awareness of how air connectivity has become such a unique and indispensable catalyst for socio-economic growth on this continent. The ICAO president spoke at the side-lines of the recently concluded ICAO 2019 Aviation Infrastructure for Africa Gap Analysis Workshop in Abuja, Nigeria. He stated that the…

. Carriers petition Minister Stationed aircraft threat to airport Foreign airlines operating into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos have raised concern over safety matters at the airport, alleging congestion at the apron of the airport which makes it difficult for arriving aircraft to have a place to park to disembark their passengers. Two of the European carriers who spoke to Woleshadarenews under condition of anonymity stated that they have filed petitions with the Minister of Transportation…

Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika on Monday said that plans were underway by the Federal Government to revisit the national carrier project. The minister made this known while defending the ministry’s budget before the Senate Committee on Aviation in Abuja. He said that the ministry only suspended the project to put adequate measures in place, promising that the project would be delivered soon. He said the project, which was President Muhammadu Buhari’s brainchild…

  West Africa’s biggest carrier, Air Peace on Monday elevated two members of its flight crew to the rank of captain, urging them to sustain the high safety standards the carrier is reputed for. Speaking during the decoration of Mr. Oluwasegun Fatonade and Mr. William Devine as captains at Air Peace Corporate Headquarters in Lagos, the carrier’s Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Allen Onyema said he was proud that they scaled the tough tests for donning…

Invests $500 million on training, infrastructure Restates belief in Boeing Despite the crash that killed all 157 passengers and crew, Africa’s biggest airline, Ethiopian Airlines said it has strong belief in Boeing, the American manufacturer of the B737 MAX that crashed six minutes after take-off from Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa. The airline’s Chief Executive Officer, Tewolde GebreMariam disclosed that more than two-thirds of their fleet is Boeing and the second nation in the world (after Japan)…