Aviation

In keeping with its determination to build staff capacity for effective service delivery, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has organized two separate training workshops in Lagos for some of its critical personnel in Safety Management. Facilitated by Aviation Academy for Southern Africa (AAFSA), the trainings include a three-day workshop on Safety Management Systems (SMS) and a five-day training which focused on the Impact of Human Factor in Air Traffic Management Safety.   While the former was for members…

 DHL Express has become the first operator to take delivery of the A330-300 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) converted aircraft from Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the joint venture between ST Aerospace and Airbus. This delivery, which took place at EFW’s freighter conversion facilities in Dresden, follows the successful completion of test flights in October and awarding of the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in November. DHL Express has firm orders for eight A330-300P2F…

By Dominic Adewole The recent development over the budding Asaba International Airport has justified the popular saying that “not all that glitter is gold.” When in February 3, 2008, barely a year after the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, assumed office, the airport was conceived and awarded to a wholly indigenous civil engineering construction company – Messrs ULO Consultants Limited, the ‘prosperity for all Deltans’ mantra of the incumbent Governor Ifeanyi…

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance), Mr. Idris Yakubu, has promised to lead the attitudinal change and a fresh drive for excellence that the Company requires to move it to the next level. Speaking when he held his maiden meeting with staff at the Head Office of the Company, Yakubu said the Company requires a new and stronger service culture, and he was prepared to lead that change. He…

High risk tag scares lenders, leasing firms President, African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has taken a swipe at most African airlines, saying the operation of very old airplanes and lack of good business model have done incalculable damage to them, leading to extinction of many of the carriers. He disclosed this to Woleshadare.net at the recently-concluded International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) World Aviation Forum in Abuja. Adesina noted that Africa needs $150 billion…

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, is pleased to announce that its second B-787-9 aircraft named after the Chinese capital city Beijing, has made its maiden commercial flight to Beijing. Ethiopian Boeing 787-9 at Beijing Capital International Airport On-board the new Ethiopian game changing fleet, passengers have enjoyed its unique features such biggest windows in the sky, high ceiling, less noise, distinctive lighting, and higher air humidity at…

The development of general aviation by Nigeria would create jobs for some of the over 300 unemployed pilots, Rector, Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Captain Abdulsalami Mohammed, has said. Mohammed, who spoke in Abuja, urged young Nigerian pilots to exercise patience with their ambition of flying big and flamboyant jets. He urged young unemployed pilots to start from light airplanes until they acquire experience and encouraged them to start with general aviation as it…

The world’s aviation summit in Abuja has come and gone. WOLE SHADARE appraises the challenges of the continent’s air transport system and possible solutions Inexistent transit Until recently, it was not uncommon for passengers flying between two African cities to transit through Europe. It was cheaper and faster, for instance, for passengers travelling to Ethiopia from Côte d’Ivoire to fly first to Paris with Air France and then catch a connecting flight to Addis Ababa….

 The Airbus Foundation and Air Côte d’Ivoire have organised their first goodwill flight to transport school supplies and clothes for underprivileged children aboard the airline’s newest A320.    As part of Air Côte d’Ivoire’s corporate social responsibility policy, this mission will support the education and health sector – areas in great need in the region.  The aircraft took off from Toulouse on 25 November carrying 3 tonnes of goods, donated by Aviation Sans Frontières, to…