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  The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has intervened in the protracted industrial action embarked by National Association of Air Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) which has paralysed activities at Bristow Helicopters. According to NAAPE, the Minister pleaded with the unions to sheathe their swords pending the determination/ outcome of a meeting at the instance of the Ministry of Labour in Lagos today. The pilots under their umbrella body had yesterday threatened to ground the aviation…

*Chairman faults company’s failure to remit dividends *Accuses airline of illegality     All may not be well with Medview Airlines as the chairman of the carrier; Sheikh Abdulmosen Al-Thunnayan is seeking to pull his investment out of the embattled airline. He is in dispute with the company over the company’s ‘failure to remit dividends due to him on his investment in Medview Airlines  and to render proper account of the company’s affairs’. He has…

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Muhammad Albakri, IATA’s Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East (AME), will be appointed Senior Vice President for Customer, Financial and Digital Services (CFDS), based in Geneva and effective 1 March 2021. At that time Aleks Popovich, who currently holds the position, will retire.  “Over the past 16 years Aleks has driven some of the most critical elements of IATA’s operations, while leading major transformational…

**Carriers need to have deep reflection-Balami   Nigerian airlines have been tasked to cooperate through code-share or merger as a way of getting them out of the woods and the threat of insolvency that is staring them in the face occasioned by COVID- 19. Chairman, Association of Aircraft Maintenance Organization of Nigeria (AAMON), Isaac David Balami, an aircraft engineer, while speaking with Woleshadarenews, lamented that a situation where three airlines schedule to fly to the…

The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and all its affiliate bodies in the aviation industry made good their threat to ground Bristow Helicopters over protracted labour issues. The union leaders and their members blocked the exit and entrance gates of the company with their vehicles to prevent any staff or visitors from gaining entrance into the company headquarters. Workers of the company who were also…

 Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Air Peace has sacked 75 of its pilots over disagreement in remuneration. The pilots sacked are across all fleets. Recall that recently, there’s been lingering conflict over pay cut and reviewed renumeration between the pilots and the management, which has finally culminated to the sacking of some pilots. Notably amongst those affected are those who were signatories to the agitations. Details shortly…..

**Spurn N30 million employment bond   From tomorrow, all pilots and engineers of Bristow Helicopters will proceed on indefinite strike action over what they described as ‘discriminatory policies and consistent victimization of Nigerians working for the carrier’. Their umbrella body, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) has backed their action for a total shutdown of all Bristow Helicopters operations from midnight Monday 3, 2020. They are about to take the action after…

    The House of Representatives has frowned at the Nigerian Embassy in United Arab Emirates for allegedly sabotaging the economic interests of Nigeria and Nigerian people. The group called for serious investigations into the roles of the embassy officials in Abu Dhabi, adding that  if found culpable severe sanctions  should be slammed against them. This was contained in a statement by the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Nnolim Nnaji while reacting to the marketing…

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has clarified that its three months Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) from July 15  to October  15, 2020 should not be misconstrued as date for lifting of ban on international air travel. The agency in a statement to clarify its position said its attention was drawn to insinuations making the rounds in certain quarters that Nigerian airports have been shut to international flights until the middle of October, 2020, describing it as…

While airlines around the world are facing collapse, the fact that carriers in the Gulf and wider Middle East are seen as ‘symbols of national pride’ as opposed to businesses could protect some of the most vulnerable during the coronavirus crisis. That is according to Rohit Ramachandran, CEO of Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways, which is one of the very few privately-owned airlines in the Middle East. Airlines in the Gulf and wider Middle East are expected…