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Alexandre de Juniac is the Director General and CEO, International Air Transport Association (IATA). In this piece he sends to Woleshadare.net, he speaks on how aviation has continued to change the world we live in. ​Air travel takes on a special character at this time of year. There are noticeably fewer business travelers. And airports and planes are filled with people traveling for leisure. Some are reuniting with families to spend the holidays together after working…

Seek NCAA’s intervention Airline blames weather This seems not to be the best of time for Medview passengers in London, Dubai and Lagos as irate travellers who were not able to travel to their various destinations have vented their anger on the airline workers by assaulting them. In Lagos, hundreds of passengers of the airline yesterday attacked officials of Med-View Airline over the cancellation of their flights out of the country. Not satisfied with taking…

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…