Author: Wole Shadare

  ●African carriers experienced 5.7% rise in demand   Nigerian airlines that are members of International Air Transport Association (IATA) are expected to key into a new payment platform that has been successfully completed by the global airlines clearing house. The test was the first “IATA Pay” ticket purchase transaction in a live test environment. The transaction was conducted in partnership with ipagoo, a UK-based fintech company. IATA is a trade association of world’s airlines…

The Federal Government has been urged to remain focused at stimulating private sector-driven aviation sector in 2019. It was also charged to ensure that the airport concessioning project came to fruition, as the project appears to be in statement only in the last four years. President, Aviation Round Table (ART), Gabriel Olowo, told Woleshadarenews  at the weekend that although efforts of government to grow the sector in the past years were remarkable, they were, however, not enough,…

*Lament poor treatment of Airways ex-workers by govt.   President of aviation think-tank, Aviation Round Table (ART), Mr. Gabriel Olowo has kicked against the move by the Federal Government to earmark  N8.5bn for the suspended national carrier project, Nigeria Air in the 2019 budget proposal to the National Assembly. Olowo who saw the sum as huge waste of resources noted that setting aside  the sum of N500m for Transaction Advisers in the budget was too…

 For its non-compliance with safety regulations, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has refused to sanction for use, the helipad built two years ago by Lagos State government near the medical emergency unit of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. The facility had been completed but yet to be used for emergency medical services because of masts and high rise building inside the hospital which the aviation regulatory body said would expose emergency helicopter operations…

  It  will no longer be business as usual for touts whose stock in trade is to hawk and sell the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP), international health certificate popularly called Yellow card to travellers at Lagos airports. This is because concerned agencies at the airports have put plans in place to ensure no traveller leaves the country with fake yellow card or avoid being vaccinated. With the approval of the Federal Government…

IATA, UK firm partner, demonstrate payment platform The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced the successful completion of the first “IATA Pay” ticket purchase transaction in a live test environment. The transaction was conducted in partnership with ipagoo, a UK-based fintech company. IATA Pay is an industry-supported initiative to develop a new payment option for consumers when purchasing a ticket directly from an airline website. It is made possible by the European Commission’s second…