Author: Wole Shadare

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Transparency in Payments (TIP) has been implemented in the Finland, Norway and Sweden markets.  TIP, which is being introduced in conjunction with NewGen ISS ‘is an industry initiative focused on providing airlines with increased transparency and control in the collection of their sales generated in the travel agency channel. At the same time, it will enable travel agents to take advantage of new forms of payment for…

Releases 147 safety recommendations The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released six final accident and serious incident reports that occurred in the Nigeria aviation industry between 2009 and 2014. The most striking of the crashes was one involving Associated Airline aircraft carrying the remains of former Minister of Aviation and former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu which occurred less than one minute after take-off at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos on October 3,…

The Federal Government is racing against time on plans to deliver on its promise on national carrier, concession of airports and others. WOLE SHADARE writes that there is need to resolve all issues pertaining to these projects, else Nigeria will be walking a familiar path that takes it no where  Race hots up  There is no doubt that the pressure in handling the concession of the four international airports, the establishment of a Maintenance Repair and Overhaul…

From the maintenance of its aircraft in-house, the Federal Government has saved over $800,000 (N228 million) as Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Aero Contractor, said it handled the repairs of its two Boeing 737- 500 by deploying its facilities. Besides, the airline, which is at the verge of stabilisation, has equally extended its technical capacity to other airlines. Disclosing this to Woleshadare.net at the weekend, the Managing Director of Aero Contractors, Capt. Ado Sanusi, said that the in-house…

Lagos, Abuja certification to raise passenger traffic to15 million annually- SGF President of global aviation regulatory body, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Dr. Bernard Olumuyiwa Aliu said Nigeria and many African countries lack proper aviation infrastructure because of the risk associated with a lack of sufficient institutional, legal and regulatory enabling frameworks which makes it very difficult for financial institutions to invest in airport projects. He stated that for states with limited access to…

Kenya Airways has blasted the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and accused it of not protecting the interest of the workers who were recently sacked. A document made available to Woleshadare.net by a source close to the airline listed several attempts made by the airline to ensure a meeting with the unions on the planned redundancy of some of the workers, but the unions avoided meeting with the management even when some of its officials…

Carriers meet over skyrocketing fuel cost There are indications that scheduled domestic airlines in the country may have spent over N100 billion on aviation fuel in the last five years. This is coming as airline operators are meeting to seek solution to escalating price of aviation fuel, otherwise known as Jet A1. Over 40 per cent of these cost could have been said if Jet A1 is refined in the country and distributed directly with…

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has lauded the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) for its consistency in the rendition of qualitative bills in the last three years. This feat according to IATA has ensured that the error rate in bills posted by the agency for its services to airlines has reduced to less than 2% from over 30% nine years ago. Making this commendation during the IATA/NAMA Service Review Meeting which held at the…

Alhaji Muneer Bankole is the Managing Director of Medview Airpline Plc. He speaks to WOLE SHADARE on the recent hiccups with the airline’s operations, the reasons for sack of 52 workers in the rationalisation exercise carried out by the firms, skyrocketing price of aviation fuel, the plan return of services to London and Dubai among other way of reposition the airline for efficient service delivery. Excerpts About our operations In 2015, we opened the regional flight which…