Aviation

**62.7% final reports in four years represent total since agency’s creation The desire to keep the aviation industry safe by the Federal Government may have led to zero accident in the last four years according to the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB). The successes were as a result of reforms in the accident investigative body and other relevant aviation agencies. Speaking with Woleshadarenews in Lagos at the weekend, spokesman for AIB, Mr. Tunji Oketunbi while elaborating…

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Nnolim Nnaji has described as unfortunate alleged destruction of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, (AIIA) perimeter fence by an indigene, Mr.  J J Emejulu, an architect. Nnaji noted that all over the world properties are relinquished by citizens for overriding public interest, adding that several other people including communities have lost their landed properties both for the airport use and for the relocation of the market that…

**Job losses up by 3.5 million, traffic down by 54%     Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East of the International Air Transport Association (IATA),  Muhammad Al Bakri  has urged African governments and the development institutions who have committed funding to provide it urgently in a structure that does not weaken already stressed airline balance sheets, before it is too late. This is coming as the group released new data indicating that…

**ICRC may terminate all concessions for new owners  ***Resolve all disputes before airport terminal take-over-Stakeholders   Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika has defended the plans by the Federal Government to concession some major airports across the country, saying government has no money to invest in aviation infrastructure. This is coming as the representative of the Director-General of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Haruna Yusuf  said the agency would review all concessions before the process that would…

    Aviation unions have called for total overhauling of the aviation industry in Nigeria, warning that if the Federal Government fails to carry out the restructuring exercise now, the sector may eventually collapse. This is as the unions threatened to ground activities at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) from Monday, August 18, 2020, over what it called fake “Condition of Service” by the management of the agency. Speaking on Wednesday at a joint media…

Air Peace has rescinded the sack of over 70 pilots it recently sacked following the intervention of the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika. The pilots had lost their jobs last week following disagreement with the management of the airline over pay cut they considered ‘wicked and ‘insensitive’. The decision to recall many of the pilots was a fall-out of an intervention meeting called by Sirika between the airline management and the leadership of the National…

  Air India Express Flight 1344’s black box has been recovered and authorities are searching for the cockpit voice recorder as investigators begin looking into the circumstances that led to the aircraft crashing on Friday. The Boeing 737 NG was carrying 190 people when it slid off the runway while trying to land for a second time at Kozhikode Airport in India during heavy rain, killing 18 people, including both pilots, and causing the plane…

Nigeria will reopen for international air travel in a matter of weeks, the aviation minister said on Thursday, without giving a specific date for the resumption after months of closure due to the global coronavirus pandemic.  “It will be in weeks rather than in months,” Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika told a regular briefing in the capital Abuja on coronavirus.  Nigeria began to close its airports in March, a month after Africa’s most populous country confirmed its…

*Want NCAA to stop unilateral sacks       Aircraft pilots have concluded plans to down tools in two weeks if Air Peace and Bristow Helicopters fails to recall their colleagues sacked on Monday and Tuesday by the airlines. The threat to carry out their strike action could worsen the fragile aviation industry and ground skeletal operations of carriers that has been impacted by COVID-19. Pilots umbrella body, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and…