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NAMA Creates Nine PBN Regional Routes Ahead Int’l Flight Resumption

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 by Wole Shadare

As part of plans to resume international flight operations in the country, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has created nine new Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Area Navigation 10 (RNAV10) regional routes across the nation’s airspace. Managing Director of NAMA Capt. Fola Akinkuotu listed the newly created PBN routes to include UQ300- connecting Lagos to the Central African Republic; UY604-linking Abuja, Port Harcourt to Southern Africa; UQ181- connecting East and Central Africa to Europe through…

Our position on controversial evacuation flight-7Star Global Hangar

Posted on August 22, 2020August 23, 2020 by Wole Shadare

The Management of 7Stars Global Hangar Management, says, they are already communicating with agencies involved in the recent evacuation flight from Nigeria to the United States and Canada with a view to resolving the matter In a statement, 7 Star Global Hangar said it will always take full responsibility for their actions and inactions and was already in dialogue with the agencies they are responsible to on the matter. 7Stars Global Hangar has described as…

Virgin Atlantic returns to Lagos Sept.10 with new A350-1000

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Wole Shadare

After a five-month hiatus, Virgin Atlantic will be welcoming customers back on-board as it makes a return back to Lagos on September 10, 2020. A statement from the carrier said to ensure the health and safety of customers and crew, Virgin Atlantic is implementing additional measures to offer peace of mind in the airport and when taking to the skies. These include enhanced and thorough cleaning practices at check in, boarding gates and on-board including…

Why AIB is not probing King Air plane incident – Oketunbi

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by Wole Shadare

Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB) has disclosed that a Beechcraft belonging to King Air with registration number 5N-IHS operated by JED Air Limited, collided with the apron wall while taxiing to reposition for ground run. The event occurred at about 9:35am beside Bristow Hangar 3 at GAT Apron, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. Spokesman for AIB, Tunji Oketunbi in a statement said the agency has taken the decision not to investigate the incident as…

Jet Crashes Into Fence At Lagos Airport

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Wole Shadare

A light aircraft belonging to Jet Air reportedly hit a fence causing substantial damage to the airplane. Sources said the King Air Jet was re-parking when it rammed into the fence. “The accident happened around 10:00am at a tarmac beside Bristow Helicopter Hanger 3. “The brake of the jet was not functioning which led to the collision of the jet with the fence of Bristow Helicopter hanger,” the eyewitness said. It was gathered…

208 Nigerians Return In Last Evacuation Flight From US

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by Wole Shadare

Two hundred and eight Nigerian citizens departed New Jersey for home on Thursday night in the ninth evacuation flight from the U.S. Barring any future change in plan, this is the final repatriation flight organised by the Federal Government for citizens stranded in the U.S. due to the coronavirus pandemic. It came barely 24 hours after the eighth flight in which 94 Nigerians were evacuated from Houston, Texas, to join friends and families back home….

Ex- Workers Battle NAHCo Over N1bn Terminal Benefits, Others

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Wole Shadare

Ex-workers of Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Plc have taken their battle to the court in a bid to get their over N1 billion severance benefits and termination of their appointment more than 15 years after the company was privatized. The workers have engaged the services of human rights lawyer, Mr. Joe Nwokedi, to press home the demand for the payment of their terminal/ severance benefits. The group, numbering over 750 persons led by…

Flights resumption: Nigeria to enforce reciprocity policy with foreign airlines

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 by Wole Shadare

Nigeria said it would enforce the principle of reciprocity in granting permission to airlines to resume operations in the country as it opens its airspace. What it means is that only airlines from countries that allow flights from Nigeria will be allowed to fly into and out of the country. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika disclosed this at Thursday’s media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. According to him, the country’s…

Nigeria to withhold passports of persons arriving from abroad as airports open

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Wole Shadare

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has issued a revised quarantine protocol for persons arriving Nigeria from Abroad (including returnees/stranded Nigerians). The revised protocol contained in a circular to all diplomatic, consular and international organisations accredited to Nigeria on the COVID-19 protocols to be observed by passengers arriving Nigeria includes depositing their passports with the Nigeria Immigration Service for two weeks, pending the verification of their COVID-19 status. According to the revised quarantine protocol…

AIB begins use of drones for accident investigations

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 by Wole Shadare

***Trains 10 investigators The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) is moving a step further in its enhancement of aviation safety as it has begun the training of ten accident investigators Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB) has trained 10 investigators on the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) popularly referred to as drone in a bid to ensure data accuracy and enhancement of accident investigation by the agency. Speaking on Thursday at the closing ceremony of…

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