Aviation

Holds emergency security meeting It’s insiders’ job-Ojikutu The security lapses at the country may have found expression at the nation’s airports, particularly at the Murtala Muhammed Airports, Lagos as bandits have continued to rob airlines taxiing to their final stops. Consequently, the high echelon of security operatives met today trying to investigate the incident. While the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) denied such incident ever happened, but a source close to the operations of…

As part of efforts to ensure that its guests continue to enjoy best fares on its flights, one of Nigeria’s leading airlines Dana Air, has launched the Dana Air Smart Sale to encourage its guests to book early, plan their trips and get smart fares on their roundtrip booking on all its existing routes from December 26th to February 28th 2018. The airline also celebrated and appreciated the efforts of travel agents in 2017 with Christmas gifts…

The era of flight disruptions occasioned by harmattan or inclement weather could be a thing of the past as the Federal Government has concluded plans to install multi-million dollar Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at Lagos and Kano airports. The tools, Woleshadare.net learnt, are Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and VHF omnidirectional range (VOR). The DME is a navigation beacon, usually coupled to enable aircraft to measure their position relative to that beacon. Aircraft send out signal,…

  WOLE SHADARE x-rays the aviation sector in the outgoing year and posits that the industry performed relatively well.   Very eventful year   The aviation industry in the year 2017 is one that can be described as successful and eventful. Nigeria asserted its relevance in Africa’s aviation recently and over the past couple of years. its airlines have rapidly expanded into West Africa, Europe, Middle East the United States. As we enter into 2018,…

Air Peace yesterday took delivery of B737-300 aircraft. The aircraft tlanded at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos at about 6.30 pm. The airplane which was flown in by Capt. Ikechukwu Paul Ugochukwu and his team is the third Boeing 737 Air Peace has received this year. The carrier took delivery of two of its new Boeing 737 aircraft on February 21 and June 16 respectively. Air Peace recently acquired six Embraer 145, a couple of Boeing 737 and…

The recent deportation of thousands of Nigerians from Libya was a sad tale. And in this report, WOLE SHADARE spoke with some of the deportees about their experiences One remembers slave trade historical sites around Nigeria with statues showing the torture and bad treatment the victims passed through. It was a pure case of man’s inhumanity to man. Our correspondent recalls a recent visit to historical slave site in Badagry, the thoughts that rang through was that…

The CityAirbus programme has reached another important milestone: the completion and “power on” of the “iron bird” ground test facility inTaufkirchen, Germany.  This enables the verification of the entire electric propulsion system of CityAirbus, developed by Airbus’ E-Aircraft Systems unit. The first full electric propulsion test bench has the capability to operate the propulsion system chain from flight controls to the dynamic loads of the propellers. This allows the verification of the electric, mechanical and thermal dynamics.  After being maturated and…

The question is, if airlines are such a bad business model then why do businessmen keep lining up to start them? WOLE SHADARE highlights why airlines collectively have been in the black since 2010 Perpetual cry It is one of the most enduring folk wisdom dicta in all of commerce. “The airline industry, in its history, has never made money.” It’s been almost 30 years since the Nigerian airline industry was deregulated.  Since then it has been…