Author: Wole Shadare

One of Africa’s fastest growing airlines; RwandAir has concluded arrangements to expand flight operations into Harare and Mumbai in April, 2017. This is just as the carrier said it hopes to expand flights into other routes including Lilongwe, Bamako Bamako , in Mali, Conakry , New York and London. Country Manager, RwandAir, Ms. Ibiyemi Odusi, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Monday. According to her, “This year, there are plans for New York, London, Mumbai,…

Nigerian airline operators said last year went down as one of the toughest and most challenging for them. They, however, see improvement in the sector this year, saying the industry has the potentials to witness good growth in 2017 if recession abates. Some operators, who spoke to Woleshadare.net under condition of anonymity, said the situation was caused by the far-reaching implications of some underlying factors in the macro environment such as the devaluation of naira…

  *We have capacity to process domestic, int’l flights-CEO     Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2), Lagos, said it has the capacity to process all domestic flights and passengers during the proposed closure of Abuja airport for total rehabilitation.   During the closure, it is expected that traffic to Lagos would increase exponentially as many international carriers said they would prefer to operate their flights to…

  *Backs closure, knocks NCAA, FAAN     Nigerian aviation industry pressure group, Aviation Round Table (ART) has taken a holistic assessment of the decision  to shut down the Abuja aerodrome and came with a verdict that the airport needs to closed to carry out comprehensive work.   The group faulted calls that the airport should not be shut but managed to allow smaller aircraft to land. It said that out of the 3.6km runway…

Chief Financial Officers of many airlines across the globe have reported that profitability was unchanged in fourth quarter of 2016 compared to that in the same period of 2015. This is the result of international Air Transport Association (IATA) quarterly business confidence survey in early January 2017. Industry heads were slightly more optimistic about the outlook for profits over the coming 12 months than they were in October’s survey. But set against a more difficult…

FG may allow regional flights for MMA2 There are indications that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) would begin to plan diversion of flights to Lagos as foreign airlines have maintained that they would rather fly to Lagos than operate to Kaduna Airport following plans to shut the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for a total rehabilitation of the airport’s runway. If the airlines make good their plans to come to Lagos rather than…

unveils Newly appointed Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Capt. Fola Akinkuotu has promised that under his watch, the agency would strive to keep pace with dynamics of the industry by aggressively improving technology and building a robust staff capacity that would effectively man the sophisticated infrastructure of the agency.   He made the disclosure in his first official interface with management staff of the agency on Monday at the agency headquarters…

*Want NCAA DG sacked for alleged incompetence           Aviation professionals under the aegis of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals (ANAP) have thrown their weight behind the closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for the six-week repair period.   ANAP Secretary General, Adulrazak Saidu who made the position known to journalists at the group’s Secretariat in Lagos said that the association is in total support of closure of Abuja Airport and use…