Aviation

  While passenger traffic is increasing marginally, the joy of air travel is fast diminishing in Nigeria’s aviation sector with astronomical rate of flight delays and cancellations. WOLE SHADARE writes Quick facilitation Time is of essence in global aviation business. Just a minute delay, according to experts, is enough to ruin an entire operation and cost the airlines dearly. In other airports around the world, the standard time for processing a passenger through the checkpoint screening is…

 African airlines saw January traffic rise 5.1 per cent, up from 3.8 per cent last December according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its global passenger traffic results for January 2019. The global passenger traffic results for January 2019 shows traffic (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 6.5 per cent compared to January 2018. This was the fastest growth in six months. January capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) rose 6.4 per cent,…

Black boxes recovered No plan to stop order-Air Peace Pilot had 8, 000 flying hours  Several countries grounded their fleets of Boeing’s latest 737 model, in the wake of Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash, while the plane-maker’s stock plunged almost 12 per cent in early trading – its biggest drop since September 2001. The move, if maintained through normal trading hours, would be the biggest fall in Boeing’s stock in nearly two decades, halting a surge…

B737MAX acquired in November A Nigerian, Professor Pius Adesanmi who teaches at Carlton University in Canada is among the 157 including eight crew members that lost their lives in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737MAX that crashed shortly after take-off from Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday morning. Adesanmi reportedly survived a motor accident along Oyo-Ogbomoso road by the whiskers in July last year. The second person is Ambassador Abiodun Bashua of the Ministry of…

All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed soon after taking off from Addis Ababa have been killed, the airline said on Sunday morning. The plane, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, lost contact at 08.44 am local time soon after taking off, at 08:38 am local time, from Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital. The aircraft, flight number ET 302, went down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa. The airline believes there…

 Air Senegal has taken delivery of its first A330-900 from Airbus’ production line in Toulouse. The carrier is the first African airline to fly Airbus’ new generation wide-body aircraft featuring latest technology engines, new wings with enhanced aerodynamics and a curved wingtip-design, drawing best practices from the A350 XWB.  Fitted with a three-class cabin comprising 32 Business class, 21 Premium Plus and 237 Economy class seats, Air Senegal plans to operate its first A330neo on its Dakar-Paris route and to further develop its medium and…

Across the world every day, Emirates’ flights connect people and businesses, enabling travel, tourism and trade. Whether from the cockpit, or inside the aircraft cabin, on the ramp or at the hangar, at service desks across the world or from headquarters in Dubai, Emirates’ female employees make an important contribution to the successful operation of every one of the airline’s flights, every day.    On the occasion of International Women’s Day Emirates has released a…

Overland Airways COO Calls For More Action Promotes Competency and Capacity Building Among Women In commemoration of the International Women’s Day and to support ICAO’s Young Aviation Professionals Programme, Mrs. Aanu Benson, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Overland Airways Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading airlines has called for increased women participation in the aviation industry. Mrs. Benson notes that the industry is fast expanding and over the next decade there would be critical need for pilots,…

In celebration of the International Women’s Day 2019, Dana Air has supported the Women in Media Development initiative 2019 and Women Entrepreneur Fair, scheduled to hold on the 29th and 30th of March at the Justice Idris Kutigi Conference Centre in Minna Niger State. The Women Entrepreneur Fair (WEF), an initiative of the Airmingle Media ltd is aimed at training, empowering and showcasing female entrepreneurs, women in business and encouraging them to come together and share their experiences in…

Flight delay by domestic airlines went unabated and has continued to take the joy out of air travel.  As a result, domestic airlines operating in Nigeria recorded 36,350 cases of delayed flights between January and December 2018. This was contained in statics released by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Nigeria’s biggest airline, Air Peace ranks first as the airline with the highest 14, 069 flight delayed, 137 cancelled flights and operated 22, 055 flights….