Aviation

  A Cambridge University student has died in Madagascar after falling from a plane. Alana Cutland’s family said they had been left “heartbroken” and paid tribute to the “bright, independent woman”. The 19-year-old from Milton Keynes died while on an internship in the African island nation earlier this month, the Foreign Office said. Reports said she fell from the Cessna-style light aircraft as it flew above the island’s savannah. In a statement, her family described…

 Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, has taken delivery of Africa’s first A320neo on lease from CDB Aviation, becoming the first African airline to operate the A320neo aircraft.  The new aircraft will allow Air Seychelles to increase capacity on its network, while delivering significant fuel savings and reducing the airlines’ operating costs. Air Seychelles’ new A320neo is equipped with a new inflight product reflecting the latest trends in air travel industry,…

Ayeni recounts experience, lauds ACHAN One of the drivers of Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Mr. Adeniyi Olayinka has returned a sum of $2, 400 (N888, 000) and an international passport forgotten by a passenger in his car to the passenger. Olayinka told journalists at the airport that he discovered the items in an envelope left behind by the passenger on the back seat of the car…

The National Union of air Transport Employees (NUATE) has concluded plans to picket Skycare Catering Services (ASL) to protest what the union described as “inhuman, unjust and unlawful” condition of work as the aviation company. The group stated that such conditions include but not limited to employment without employment letters, no terms of engagement or conditions of service, arbitrary terminations, victimisation of the basis of joining and holding office 1 a trade union, refusal to…

 With an order book of 551 aircraft as of end of June 2019, the A220 has all the credentials to win the lion’s share of the 100-to-150-seat aircraft market, estimated to represent 7,000 aircraft over the next 20 years. Consequently, the Air France–KLM Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for 60 A220-300 aircraft to modernise its fleet. By acquiring the industry’s most efficient and technologically advanced single-aisle aircraft, the airline will benefit from…

The regional general manager, South West airports, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Mrs Victoria Shin-Aba has decried the incessant attacks on airport officials over indiscriminate parking of vehicles in an unauthorised areas at the airport by uniform men and escort personnel. Shin-Aba, who spoke with journalists in her office at the MMIA Lagos, expressed displeasure over the flagrant abuse of power by uniform men and escort vehicles personnel especially those with 12 vehicles in…

The Managing Director of TopBrass Airlines, Capt. Roland Iyayi, has exonerated Nigerian operators from the incessant collapse of airlines. He attributed their demise to the deliberate and consistent policy geared towards ensuring that the airlines that are the primary players in the industry do not survive. Iyayi, who spoke to Woleshadarenews on the sideline of aviation journalists forum in Lagos recently, said: “You have airlines failing is not because they can’t run the airlines, it…

The recurring aircraft incidents is beginning to erode confidence in air travel, signalling a red flag about the nation’s air safety, writes WOLE SHADARE   Unsettled travelling public These days, passengers call, send emails to know what airline tickets they should buy for their trips within the country. Assurances that Nigerian airlines are very safe despite the many incidents/accidents recorded in recent times did not assuage their fears. But nothing has so unsettled the traveling public recently…

  Pensioners of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have given the management of the organisation two weeks to address the issue of the withdrawal of some benefits being enjoyed in the past 14 years or face industrial unrest.  This followed the stalemated meeting of July24 2019 between the ad-hoc committee put in place by the managing director to look into the issue with the pensioners.  The pensioners, under the aegis of Nigeria Union…