Author: Wole Shadare

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), says a total of 3.36 million passengers travelled through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja between January and September. FAAN disclosed this in its 2018 Passengers Traffic Statistics obtained by Woleshadarenews. The report showed that a total of 2.6 million people travelled locally (domestic) while 689,388 passengers were recorded on international wing during the period. It also showed that while 1.36 million passengers were recorded on domestic…

Dana Air on Saturday celebrated its 10th anniversary in Nigeria’s aviation industry with a strong commitment to continue to offer its guests the best of service hinged on safety and customer satisfaction. The Chief Operating Officer of Dana Air Mr Obi Mbanuzuo, while addressing newsmen in Lagos said, ‘despite all the challenges that airlines in Nigeria have to grapple with, Dana Air is proud to be celebrating 10 years of providing massive job opportunities, capacity development,…

Air Peace has blamed aviation politics for the delay in starting its flights to long-haul routes, including London, Guangzhou-China, Houston, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Dubai and Sharjah. Speaking at the 5th Aviation Stakeholders’ Forum organised by the Federal Ministry of Transport in Abuja on Thursday, Air Peace Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Olajide said authorities of most of the international destinations the carrier had been designated to operate to were either deliberately foot-dragging in processing its application…

Green Africa Airways has announced the appointment of Nathan Smith, Lara Yusuff, Kristof Hegedus and Jasmine Dhillon as Directors of Maintenance & Engineering, Quality & Safety, Ground Operations and Cabin Services, respectively.  Smith is a seasoned industry leader with almost 40 years of aviation experience. He most recently established Maintenance, Engineering and the Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Organization (CAMO) program at flyadeal airlines, the low-cost subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Airlines. Flyadeal received its AOC in less…

The removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) on air transport was a long awaited one. However, the starting point should be a reassessment of the many taxes imposed on operators in the country. WOLE SHADARE writes   Long awaited action One of the problems that had confronted Nigeria’s aviation industry for many decades was in a stroke of pronouncement became a thing of the past. The problem: VAT on air transport was removed by President Muhammadu Buhari…

·         Dedicated flight-test aircraft to perform flight-physics tests for the A330-800 variant; ·         The newest, most efficient longest range entry level widebody ·         Development on track for A330-800 certification in 2019. #A330neoFF    The first A330-800 development aircraft to fly, MSN1888, has landed at Toulouse-Blagnac, France at 2:35pm local time after successfully completing its first flight which lasted four hours and four minutes. The aircraft, the second member of the A330neo Family, is powered by the latest technology…

Ahead of planned strike today by organised Labour unions,  there are indications that foreign airlines operating into the country may not adversely be affected by the planned grounding of activities in Nigeria, following agitation for wage increase by the nation’s unions. This is as aviation unions said they empathised with the domestic operators and other business organisations in the industry that would be affected by the action, saying that as affiliated members of labour centres,…

 NCAA to probe action  In what could be a violation of operational process, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) may query the decision of Nigeria Police to use one of its helicopters for charter flight operations.  According to NCAA’s regulations, helicopters in the fleet of the Nigeria Police Air Wing are not authorized to engage in “reward and hire”, which in aviation par lance is charter operations.  Sources close to scheduled operators say the involvement…