Aviation

Emirates has reduced its half-year-loss and is “well on the recovery path with healthy revenue and a solid cash balance at the end of our first half of 2021-22”, it reported on November 10. The Dubai-airline group reported a net loss of AED 5.7 billion ($1.6 billion) compared to AED 14.1 billion between April and September 2020. Group EBITDA improved to AED 5.6 billion from AED -43 million. Group revenues including dnata were up to AED…

 A staff of Ari Air has been apprehended for soliciting a bribe from a traveller at the domestic wing of the Lagos airport by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Extortion by airline staff and security operatives has become one of the major concerns of the authority as it has promised to arrest any security official and airline officials soliciting bribes, an action that destroys the image of the country. This is coming as…

Flight 086 shattered my dream-Capt Okon Nov 7, sad reminder of my husband’s death-Uloma Afonja   Twenty-five years after losing their breadwinners, loved ones in ADC Flight 086 inside the Itoikin River near Ikorodu, the pain is still very deep, the scare is still very visible as some families of victims of the 144 passengers and crew converged on the bank of the river where a cenotaph was erected to offer prayers. The sleepy Itoikin town…

Int’l travel returns to the US, Nov 8   As the U.S. re-opens to fully vaccinated international travelers, Delta Air Lines is reuniting families and friends who have been kept apart for the past 20 months. In the six weeks since the U.S reopening was announced, Delta has seen a 450% increase in international point-of-sale bookings versus the six weeks prior to the announcement. Many international flights are expected to operate 100% full on Monday,…

  Airlink, the privately owned Southern African regional airline, will implement a company-wide programme involving training, new processes and supply chain interventions to identify and combat illicit wildlife trade. The illegal wildlife trade is valued between $50-150 billion (approximately between ZAR730 billion – ZAR2,19 trillion at current exchange rates) per year and is one of the five most lucrative global crimes. Illegal killing and trading of wild animals is a global crisis, with species being…

AIB’s N645 million training school 95 percent completed     The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation chaired by Honourable Nnolim Nnaji has applauded two aviation agencies, Air Accidents Investigation Bureau, (AIB) and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, (NIMET) for their 2021 budget performances. The committee gave the commendation during an oversight inspection visit to the agencies’ offices and their projects’ sites at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja on Tuesday. The oversight team led by the…

The management of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operators of the domestic wing of the Lagos Airport, the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2) has launched a ‘Foreign Object Debris’ (FOD) awareness initiative at the terminal. The initiative, according to the Ag. Head of Business, Mr. Raphael Uchegbu, is a deliberate move to ward off potential dangers that FODs constitute to aerodrome operations. Uchegbu, who stated that FODs contribute to the damage or potential damage…

The Incident Investigation and Prevention Bureau of Ghana is seeking technical and institutional partnership with its counterpart in Nigeria, Accident Investigation Bureau – Nigeria (AIB-N). To this end, the Commissioner, AAIIPB-Ghana Mr. Akwesi Prempeh led a four-man team to the headquarters of AIB-N in Abuja, Nigeria for a three-day working visit. He described Nigeria’s AIB-N as one of the most developed accidents investigation bodies in the world, stressing that for his bureau to grow and…

In a bid to strengthen airlines and to know their financial capabilities, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said its economic regulation function would be more robust from next year. The DIRECTOR-General of NCAA, Capt. Musa Nuhu who was a panelist at the Aviation Leadership CEO’s Forum/ Aviators Africa Tower Awards with the theme, “Corporate Governance Structure: A pathway to sustainability in African Aviation”, lamented the lack of check and balances in the corporate governance…

Delta Air Lines, the longest-serving U.S. airline to Africa, has concluded plans to resume its nonstop service between Lagos and New York-JFK in December, restoring this popular route in time for the festive season. Delta will operate nonstop flights between Murtala Muhammed International Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport three times a week, effective December 8, 2022. The airline also continues to connect Lagos to Atlanta daily. With connections to 46 cities at Delta’s JFK hub,…