Author: Wole Shadare

All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed soon after taking off from Addis Ababa have been killed, the airline said on Sunday morning. The plane, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, lost contact at 08.44 am local time soon after taking off, at 08:38 am local time, from Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital. The aircraft, flight number ET 302, went down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa. The airline believes there…

 Air Senegal has taken delivery of its first A330-900 from Airbus’ production line in Toulouse. The carrier is the first African airline to fly Airbus’ new generation wide-body aircraft featuring latest technology engines, new wings with enhanced aerodynamics and a curved wingtip-design, drawing best practices from the A350 XWB.  Fitted with a three-class cabin comprising 32 Business class, 21 Premium Plus and 237 Economy class seats, Air Senegal plans to operate its first A330neo on its Dakar-Paris route and to further develop its medium and…

Across the world every day, Emirates’ flights connect people and businesses, enabling travel, tourism and trade. Whether from the cockpit, or inside the aircraft cabin, on the ramp or at the hangar, at service desks across the world or from headquarters in Dubai, Emirates’ female employees make an important contribution to the successful operation of every one of the airline’s flights, every day.    On the occasion of International Women’s Day Emirates has released a…

Overland Airways COO Calls For More Action Promotes Competency and Capacity Building Among Women In commemoration of the International Women’s Day and to support ICAO’s Young Aviation Professionals Programme, Mrs. Aanu Benson, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Overland Airways Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading airlines has called for increased women participation in the aviation industry. Mrs. Benson notes that the industry is fast expanding and over the next decade there would be critical need for pilots,…

In celebration of the International Women’s Day 2019, Dana Air has supported the Women in Media Development initiative 2019 and Women Entrepreneur Fair, scheduled to hold on the 29th and 30th of March at the Justice Idris Kutigi Conference Centre in Minna Niger State. The Women Entrepreneur Fair (WEF), an initiative of the Airmingle Media ltd is aimed at training, empowering and showcasing female entrepreneurs, women in business and encouraging them to come together and share their experiences in…

Flight delay by domestic airlines went unabated and has continued to take the joy out of air travel.  As a result, domestic airlines operating in Nigeria recorded 36,350 cases of delayed flights between January and December 2018. This was contained in statics released by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Nigeria’s biggest airline, Air Peace ranks first as the airline with the highest 14, 069 flight delayed, 137 cancelled flights and operated 22, 055 flights….

FAAN set to decongest Lagos traffic Nigeria may have given Turkish Airlines and Emirates additional frequency (Flight rights) to operate to the Port-Harcourt Airport and the newly-built Abuja International Airport terminal. This has, however, expanded their scope of operations in Nigeria, which is lopsided and not in tandem with the Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) Nigeria has with these countries. The newly commissioned Abuja Airport has annual capacity of 15 million passengers, while Port Harcourt…

Claims, counter claims over MMA2 concession persist  Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operators of the ultra-modern Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA2) have called on stakeholders in the aviation industry to encourage Bi-Courtney and other private investors and developers to save the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from itself and its abysmal management of airport infrastructure. The company alleged that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) through its actions has consistently breached its obligations in…

With protectionism constricting air traffic growth in Africa, WOLE SHADARE calls for capacity development to increase the market share of air transport in the continent Protectionism in aviation, particularly to airline business is the practice of shielding a country’s domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports’. Aviation protectionism is simply preventing other airlines from operating into a country. This is principally due to the fact that the governments want to protect their national carriers,…

Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Air Peace said its planned operations to Sharjah and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from Lagos is strategic to its flight operations, adding that it had no plans from doing so from Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Spokesman for the airline, Chris Iwarah said it had not altered its plan to commence its Sharjah and Dubai services from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. He disclosed that arrangements for its long-haul…