Author: Wole Shadare

There are indications that Nigeria’s passenger traffic could hit 32 million by 2036 if the country maintains the momentum between now and that period,Woleshadare.net has learnt. This figure is part of the projection of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that it expects 7.8 billion passengers to travel in 2036, a near doubling of the four billion air travellers expected to fly this year. The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had put both domestic and international…

  ·                     Enhances Inter-connectivity In West Africa Overland Airways, one of Nigeria’s leading scheduled and charter airlines, will inaugurate its Lagos-Cotonou-Niamey flights on October 3, 2018. Overland Airways’ Lagos-Cotonou-Niamey flights will operate on Wednesdays and Fridays. The flights will depart Lagos at 19:00, arrive Cotonou at 19:30 for a brief stop-over and depart Cotonou at 20:00 to arrive Niamey at 22:00. The flights will leave Niamey at 05:00 on Thursdays and Saturdays to arrive Cotonou at…

In celebration of the Customer Service week 2018, the SERVICOM department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN, embarked on a road walk to appreciate its numerous customers across airports. The road walk was help simultaneously at all airports managed by FAAN. The train of SERVICOM officers at the Lagos airport clad in SERVICOM T-shirts and caps moved from the FAAN headquarters to the FAAN Human Resources building, the Medical center to the General Aviation…

Orders additional 24 A320neo and three A321neo  Lufthansa Group has converted 27 A320neo Family options into firm orders. Following a decision by the company’s supervisory board, the Group signed for an additional 24 Airbus A320neo and three A321neo aircraft. Ten of the aircraft will be deployed with Lufthansa Group’s Swiss International Air Lines. Part of the order will be powered by PW engines and the other by CFM Leap 1A, so both engine types are…

Airlines to save N30B annually on local production   The production of aviation fuel, known as Jet A1 locally would help to regularise supply and eliminate scarcity according to the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Capt. Fola Akinkuotu.   Akinkuotu also charged charged the oil and gas sector in Nigeria to consider critically the production of the commodity in the country in line with the Nigerian Content Development initiative of the…

  Arik Air, Nigeria’s leading airline is giving away 250 free tickets on October 1, 2018 to celebrate Nigeria’s 58th Independence anniversary. Customers flying Arik Air on Monday, October 1 have the opportunity of winning complimentary tickets on board as five one-way economy class tickets will be raffled on each and every flight of the day. In the course of the day’s flights, the crew will conduct a raffle using the seat numbers to draw five…

*Air Peace loses N1B on W/Coast in six months Chairman of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema said the suspension of national carrier by the Federal Government was a huge challenge to domestic carriers or the country’s flag carriers to step up to the plate to offer Nigerians quality services. This is coming as the carrier disclosed that his airline lost over N1 billion in six months on West Coast operations because of huddles put on…

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited, SAHCOL, Dr. Taiwo Olayinka Afolabi (MON) has been honoured with the ‘NUATE Philanthropic Award’, by the Nigerian Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE. The award was presented to him at the Union Quadrennial National Delegates Conference and Awards Ceremony, held at the Grand Hotel Convention Centre and Resort, Asaba, Delta State, in the presence of eminent Nigerians, Labour and Chief Executive…