Author: Wole Shadare

ACCIDENT TO DANA AIRCRAFT A LOOK AT MINISTERIAL PANEL REPORT   BY CAPT. DELE ORE   The panel is titled ‘Technical and Administrative Review Panel of Domestic Airlines’.   The panel was premature in set-up and in conflict with Accident Investigation Bureau Mandate. When an accident occurs the accident investigation body does not just focus on the accident but examines the aviation system within which the accident occurred including all the matters in the terms…

The clearing house for over 260 global airlines, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Africa, currently accounts for just 1.6 per cent of the global air cargo market share.     The continent saw a 13.6 per cent rise in cargo traffic – measured in Freight Tonne Kilometres (FTKs)- during December 2016.     IATA made the disclosure in its latest monthly analysis of performance and trends in the air cargo market. It further…

Fourty-one Nigerians were today deported by the British government. Also deported were 41 Ghanaians over immigration issues classified as offenses in the English laws.   The Nigerian deportees, 33 males and eight females, arrived the cargo section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos at 7:50 am, in an unmarked chartered Airbus 330 aircraft.       The deportees were downcast. A mild drama ensued when one of the deportees, an elderly woman who…

Med-View Airline PlC was yesterday listed in the Nigerian Capital Market as one of the publicly quoted companies registered with the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE), adding N14.65bn into market capitalization.   Med-View is one of the domestic airlines in the country flying into 14 local, regional and international destinations.   With a turnover of N3.6bn at the initial stages of operations, its turnover has grown to N26bn with a projected growth of N 76bn in the…

  Airlines Are Experimenting With New Strategies To Survive In The Complex Aviation World, Writes WOLE SHADARE   Bristow’s ‘all-coach-class’ experiment on some routes, a major departure from industry practice for scheduled domestic flights, is the latest in an industry trend toward niche marketing. Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria), arguably the largest helicopter operator in Nigeria, assumes that nearly all its Lagos-Abuja- Port-Harcourt-bound passengers are leisure travellers paying good fares and that filling the plane with them…

The inability of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to ensure that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) carries out compliance with approved runway maintenance programme led to the hard decision taken by the Federal Government to close the Abuja airport runway for rehabilitation, stakeholders have said. Consequently, they insisted that the two agencies should be held responsible for the decay of the facilities, wondering what was their input considering that the runway’s lifespan…

* Airlines sold N330.5B tickets in 2016-NCAA           Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has commenced certification of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.   This is coming as 18 firms have indicated interest to begin flight operations, just as the aviation regulatory body is said to be processing their all-important Air Operator Certificate (AOC). The NCAA said it has nine ‘unfirmed’ applications that are just at the level…

 The Capital of Guinea becomes the national flag carrier’ 51st destination in Africa as well. Turkish Airlines  today launched its first flight between Istanbul and Conakry. With this new addition, Turkish Airlines has expanded its network to 51 destinations on the continent where it is has the largest coverage number of destinations among all carriers. It is thereby cementing its position as the carrier that flies to more countries than any other airline, with 296 destinations in 120…

Med-View Airline stole the show last at the weekend at the 2016 Nigeria Aviation (NIGAV) Awards night emerging the airline of the year and clinching two other awards. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole won the coveted award of airline CEO of the year while a pilot of the airline, Capt. Usman Saleh Yahaya emerged as the Pilot of the Year. NIGAV is an annual award used to recognize excellence…