Author: Wole Shadare

  FAAN, group spat over debts     The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika has come under scathing criticisms over concession of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and the Abuja airport, calling on the Minister to halt the process or face total grounding of the aviation sector in 15 days.   The unions insisted that the planned concession of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano Airports in the first phase was taking the shape of…

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) announced that IATA’s Cargo-XML messaging standard has been fully integrated into WCO’s Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS), a risk assessment tool available to WCO member countries worldwide.   The integration of Cargo-XML in the WCO CTS enables electronic communication between airlines and customs authorities using the IATA Cargo-XML standards format.   This will make communication simpler and more effective, and facilitate more…

Poised to have a strong presence on the West Coast, Med-View Airline will on Monday, October 27 spread its wings to Abidjan, Conakry and Dakar with an inaugural flight. With the three new cities, the airline now has six destinations on the West Coast as Accra, Monrovia and Freetown are already on its network. The flights to the new destinations will be three times a week – Monday, Wednesday  and  Friday with early departures (7.30am)…

Last week, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) commissioned the multi storey car park at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with so much fanfare. Without doubts, the airport was in dire need of a befitting car park. With the speed at which the facility was completed, one would think that other facilities would get same speedy attention. Anyway, the multi storey car park is said to be financed by a commercial Bank and one…

An aviation expert and pioneer Chief Executive, Integrated Intelligence Imaging West Africa Ltd (I-CUBE WA Ltd), Moyosola Niran-Oladunni, has called for the review of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), stating that the agency needs to be wholly privatised and remodelled as Nigerian Airports Management Holding Company. He reiterated that his idea is to convert FAAN to Nigeria Airports Management Holding Company with the Federal Government controlling substantial equity holding. To him, the holding…

Passenger demand to expand by 5.7% yearly –IATA Problems associated with blocked funds in Africa is yet to abate as the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said airlines’ trapped funds in Africa are an increasing problem with carriers as they are unable to repatriate their foreign currency earnings from nine African countries. Before now, Nigeria, Egypt, Angola and Sudan topped countries in the region with $2 billion revenues belonging to the carriers. In June, the…