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Two of Nigeria’s biggest gateways, the Abuja and Port Harcourt International Airports have been given a clean bill of health in meeting industry best practices by the Airport Council International (ACI). To this end, the two airports, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja and the Port Harcourt International Airport Omagwa have been accredited   in the Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Health Accreditation Programme. The two International Airports are now the 1st and 2nd respectively to be accredited in this…

The United Arab Emirates, UAE Government has stopped Air Peace inbound flights from Nigeria to UAE as part of its COVID-19 measures. Air Peace in a statement however says, flights bringing Nigerians back from UAE are not affected. Spokesman for Air Peace Stanley Oliseh says flights from UAE (Sharjah-Dubai) to Lagos are not affected, “Normal flights shall resume when the restriction is lifted from February 28, 2021”. “Our esteemed customers whose flights are disrupted by…

  Gives fresh 14 days rule for connecting passengers    Emirates Airlines which suspended flights to Nigeria over spat between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) occasioned by controversy over Rapid Antigen Testing (RDT) prior to departure of Emirates flights from Nigeria  said it would return to the lucrative Dubai-Nigerian routes February 28, 2021. This may have put an end to hope by passengers already booked on services by the airline that the spat…

Kenya Airways, once the pride of Africa and one of the continent’s leading airlines, is struggling.  The company has recorded more than eight-year consecutive losses; the result of a poorly managed expansion strategy. The airline’s fleet shrunk while expansion has been drastically cut to stem cash burn. The carrier, before the coming of Emirates and Qatar to Nigeria over a decade ago, operated to East Africa, Middle-East, and to Europe. In fact, it was the…

Passengers on Egypy Air, others stranded Fares may skyrocket over limited capacity The United Arab Emirates may have clandestinely killed competition as the country has effectively shut transit flights from Nigeria to Dubai. Only direct flights originating from Nigeria are now permitted to fly directly into UAE. Aside that, many Nigerians who had booked flights to Dubai through Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Cairo, Kigali and other European destinations are cut in the web of the new…

The air transport industry in Africa has experienced a number of major disruptions over the last few decades, including health and economic crises that temporarily set back the industry. But none was as devastating as the COVID-19 pandemic, which struck at a period that hit projected 150 million passengers in the continent. The COVID-19 pandemic, which began as a localized disease in late 2019 degenerated into a global pandemic early in 2020, setting off frenzied…

Following the exit of the United Kingdom from Europe on December 31, 2020, Air France-JKLM has taken a different measures by the reintroduction of airport transit visa requirements for citizens of certain nationalities including Nigeria and Ghana.who hold a British visa, long stay visa or a British residence permit and who are travelling to the UK. A notice from Air-France-KLM dated December 29, 2020, captioned, “Travel on Air France or KLM to and from United…

Propose N50b bailout for airlines The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has kicked against the continued collection of import duties on imported commercial aircraft and spare parts despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s executive order exempting them. The committee led by its chairman,  Nnolim Nnaji during a press conference on Monday also frowned at the persistence imposition of value added tax, (VAT) on importation of aircraft and spares by Federal Inland Revenue, (FIRS). Nnaji disclosed that …

Existing aviation Acts archaic The pitiable financial situation of the cash cow in the aviation industry, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), came to the fore as the Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Nuhu, appealed to the National Assembly to assist the authority carry out its statutory responsibilities. Nuhu made the appeal to the Senate through the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi, at the just concluded stakeholders…