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The quest for Nigeria to float a new national airline, Nigeria Air received a boost as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) will on Monday present the airline with Air Transport Licence (ATL). The licence will be presented to the interim management of the airline at the headquarters of the aviation regulatory body in Abuja. This was made known on the Instagram handle of the Ministry of Aviation @fmaviationng which reads, “The @NigerianCAA will on…

dnata has taken concrete steps to reduce water consumption and recycle waste across its different business units, as well as increase investments in electric and hybrid ramps, ground support, and forklift equipment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and meet the latest safety and quality standards.  Emirates group subsidiary and global airport services provider, dnata announced on Thursday it plans to invest $100 million (AED 367 million) in green operations over the upcoming two years, as…

CBN may blacklist firms, to release trapped airlines’ N117.6 billion funds ‘soon’     The big travel agents like Satguru, Wahiguru, Blueberry and others particularly based in India and South East Asia take advantage of the relative ease in ticket issuance through APG IET and other Global Distribution Systems (GDS) like Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre among others issue what is generally known as Sold OutsideTicketed Outside (SOTO) tickets. Your airline ticket is a SOTO, (Sold Inside Ticketed Outside), Sold Outside…

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for holistic reforms to manage the long-term need for a stable talent base for the ground handling sector. Thousands of ground handling staff left the aviation industry during the pandemic. Now as aviation ramps up, the severe shortage of skilled ground handlers is shedding light on the need for reform to stabilize the talent pool. In the immediate term, the most pressing issue according to the…