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NAHCO Bags Awards

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Wole Shadare

The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance) has emerged the Best Aircraft Handling Company & Transport CEO of the Year 2017 for West Africa The award winners were announced at the Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017, organized by the Transport News INTL. In announcing the awards, the newsmagazine said the 2017 Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards are designed to recognise and celebrate the achievements made by companies, teams and individuals…

Virgin Atlantic celebrates 16 years of warm African welcomes

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Sir Richards Branson’s iconic airline launched flights from Lagos in July 2001 Around 3 million Nigerian Customers have flown with Virgin Atlantic since Iconic airline offers daily flights to London Heathrow, and connections onwards to the US Virgin Atlantic is today celebrating sixteen years of flying between Lagos and London – helping over three million customers enjoy holidays, business trips and visit friends and family in the UK and beyond. The airline celebrated by…

Flying as one: Fully integrated Airbus takes off

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Company united under single brand following corporate reorganisation Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) has integrated as planned its Group structure with its largest division, Commercial Aircraft. Following a reorganisation announced in September 2016, Airbus will benefit from a simpler structure that enables faster decision-making, less bureaucracy, greater collaboration and increased efficiency. This structure will also facilitate the digitalisation programme currently under implementation. The newly merged Airbus together with the two divisions, Helicopters and Defence and…

Why Nigerian airlines have high mortality rate, by AON

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Obsolete infrastructure that hampers the ease of doing business, introduction of new charges without consulting the carriers, epileptic supply of Jet A1 have made nonsense of feasibility studies of airlines and reduced poor utilisation of aircraft, airline operators under the aegis of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) have said. Chairman, AON, Capt Noggie Meggison, made this known in a paper he made available to Woleshadare.net recently. He said that this development has made airline operators…

HALF YEAR REPORT

Posted on July 4, 2017July 4, 2017 by Wole Shadare

For aviation,it’s slow motion Nigeria’s aviation showed so much promise in the last six months, but was a little bit slow in reaching the promised land. WOLE SHADARE writes Mixed feelings Airport users and air travellers are sharply divided over the performance of aviation industry. The last six months has witnessed both highs and lows but the general consensus is that the sector is more stable than it has ever experienced. The sector has…

FAAN begins massive airport infrastructure investments

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Concentrates on service delivery, seamless airports facilitations The Federal Airports of Nigeria (FAAN) has begun massive investment in airports especially the Lagos and Abuja to ease facilitation and improve passengers’ comfort. Spokeswoman for FAAN, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, said what the government was trying to do was plough back revenue to airport infrastructure. She stated that the government was very concerned about infrastructure, the reason it took the pain to refurbish the Abuja airport…

Electronic device ban lifted on flights to US from Abu Dhabi

Posted on July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Following the successful validation of security measures at the US Preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi airport over the weekend, the US Department of Homeland Security to lift the electronic devices ban on flights between Abu Dhabi and the United States. According to a source from Etihad, “effective immediately, the removal of the restrictions allows passengers flying to the US to carry all laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices onto the aircraft, subject to enhanced security…

MMA2 at 10: ICRC, Systemspecs hail Bi-Courtney

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and SystemSpecs, an audit firm chaired by the boardroom guru, Dr. Christopher Kolade, have hailed the pioneering efforts of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), a member of The Resort Group and operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2), which turned 10 recently. In separate letters to BASL, the two organisations said the resilience of the firm was responsible for the way MMA2, the first privately-funded airport terminal…

IATA VP: What Africa needs is connectivity, not airlines

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Raphael Kuuchi is the Vice-President, International Air Transport Association (IATA) for Africa. He has worked tirelessly to help IATA achieve its aim in air transport safety in the continent. He spoke to WOLE SHADARE at the just concluded IATA 73rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Cancun, Mexico on air transport liberation, high taxes in aviation and how the continent’s airlines can be profitable and offer quality services to passengers. Excerpts IATA’s AGM just ended, what…

ASKY connects Accra-Lagos-Abuja

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Introduces more baggage allowance on new service In line with its mission to seamlessly connect West and Central Africa, making business and leisure travel easy and reducing the flying time it takes to connect cities in the region, ASKY will effective July 10, 2017 launch daily flight operations between Lagos and Accra and between Accra and Abuja. With this new service, passengers will be able to connect these cities everyday departing in the morning and arriving…

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