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Comparative air travel costs analysis in Africa

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Flying within Africa is more expensive than just about anywhere else in the world. Travellers pay higher ticket prices and more tax, write, WOLE SHADARE It is no longer news that Nigeria and some African nations possess some of the highest taxes and charges. This situation has led to an astronomical increase in the price of air tickets, one that has made air travel very expensive in these regions. Lost revenue Nigeria is said to be…

Passengers as airlines’ transactional burden

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The observation that some airlines exhibit “appalling service delivery” amidst a period like Customer Service Week highlights a significant disconnect between the industry’s rhetoric and its reality, especially for the budget and mid-tier sectors where cost-cutting can override customer care, writes WOLE SHADARE Every year, business owners celebrate ‘Customer Service Week’, a week set aside by them to appraise service delivery to their customers. Not many customers feel the essence of the celebration’s impact because, in…

Ogun Airport: Paradigm shift, stark dichotomy from the past

Posted on October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Airports are visible, “shiny” symbols of development and modernity. For governors, completing an airport allows them to boast about “connecting” their state to the rest of the country and the world, serving as a powerful legacy project, writes WOLE SHADARE When the Ogun State Government, little over five years came up with the idea of building the Gateway International Agro-Cargo Airport, many did not give it a chance that the projection would come to fruition. No one should…

States stuck in rat race for own airlines

Posted on September 30, 2025September 30, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The rush by state governments to set up airlines is fueled by a mix of economic necessity, prestige, and the desire to control a key infrastructure sector, writes WOLE SHADARE The trend of Nigerian state governments establishing their own airlines or entering into partnerships to operate branded carriers has indeed become a significant development in the country’s aviation sector. This phenomenon is best described as a “race” or a growing competitive inclination, which is largely inspired…

Africa’s national airlines spring up from the dead

Posted on September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Concerns have been raised about the nationalisation of several airlines. Many African countries are beginning to revive their dead airlines amid the springing up of national carriers across Africa under different market arrangements, writes WOLE SHADARE The wave of state-owned airlines is beginning to gain traction. It is an indication of how important aviation is to the governments in driving the economic engines of their different nations. The huge ceremony that accompanied the inaugural flight…

Cockpit Chaos: When a captain chooses to be sky-high

Posted on September 16, 2025September 16, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Chaos in the cockpit, danger in the skies Both pilots and cabin crew have a wide range of skills and knowledge to successfully fly an aircraft from point A to point B. While most think that those competencies only revolve around the technical knowledge, soft skills sometimes get overlooked, writes WOLE SHADARE On July 13, 2025, a B737-500 aircraft belonging to Air Peace caused a stir among stakeholders in the aviation industry with the manner in…

Africa’s empty skies aided by low propensity to fly

Posted on September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 by Wole Shadare

This basic concept of own-price elasticity of air travel in different market segments suggests that if air fares are reduced on Nigeria’s domestic routes, demand for air travel is likely to increase, since these routes are short-haul, and the prohibitive costs of air travel exclude several potential consumers of the service, writes WOLE SHADARE . The disclosure by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week, lamenting the high cost of flying’s disruptive impact on the…

BASA: X-raying profitability optics in Nigerian, Brazilian pact

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The restoration of flight services between Nigeria and Brazil, 31 years after Varig ceased operations to Nigeria, has been received with mixed feelings as investment in the route would determine how far Air Peace and other carriers eyeing the route can go to sustain operations, writes WOLE SHADARE Nigeria and Brazil, two nations with very strong economies in South America and Africa, inked a multilateral trade agreement last week when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited his…

MMIA rebuild, gross ANS neglect

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The plan by the Federal Government to build a brand-new international airport terminal in Lagos has been applauded. Still, the omission of air navigation infrastructure undermines the N712 billion investment in the project. An airport without ANS is a warehouse – a monument to incomplete strategy, writes WOLE SHADARE The rebuilding of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMA) Terminal One in Lagos initially came with its controversy, given what some described as ‘outrageous’. The plan…

Safety Breach: K1, pilots’, Emmanson conducts expose Nigeria’s aviation soft underbelly

Posted on August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 by Wole Shadare

At a time Nigeria is making an upward trajectory in aviation in terms of policy direction, the loss of sanity by the musician, ValueJet pilots and assault by Comfort Emmanson on Ibom Air’s cabin crew could erode the gains made in the last two years if the matter is swept under the carpet. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is watching. The world is watching, writes WOLE SHADARE The incident involving popular musician King…

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