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**How to save aviation ground handling companies-Stakeholders   Former Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren said  it becomes imperative that foreign airlines pay the dollar equivalent for ground handling services rendered to it in order to ensure the survival of the Aviation Ground Handling companies. Demuren, made the call recently during a webinar organized by the Association of Aviation Ground Handlers (AGHAN). The former DG of NCAA who was one of…

  Some ex-workers of Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) have given account of their trauma and untold hardship they have grappled with to receive their severance pay since they were laid off under questionable circumstances more than 15 years after privatisation of the company. For 15 years, many of them could not get their entitlements before they died, with many lamenting the irregularities and alleged under-hand dealings by the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE)…

IATA remits $200,000 to agency   BASA fund depletes to $413,658    Following the crisis that has engulfed the aviation sector lately, revenue accruing to the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has dwindled drastically, leading to an intervention by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, to secure N3.1 billion as loan for July salaries. The intervention also prevented workers at the agency from embarking on strike, even though there is no assurance as to where August salaries…

    Etihad Airways’ Chief Executive Officer, Tony Douglas said he “remains optimistic” about the coming months despite operating losses in H1 2020 increasing by nearly 30% to $758 million. The United Arab Emirates’ national airline posted a record performance in Q1 of 2020 before the outbreak of the pandemic but performance dived in Q2 when international travel restrictions zapped passenger demand and grounded fleets. The airline had been on track to double its EBITDA…

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Boeing with a list of recommendations and fixes for its grounded 737 Max after completing a series of flight tests last month. In the fairly substantial list of fixes, the FAA recommends changes to the MCAS system, which is partly blamed for the two Max crashes. The FAA also expects computer changes, the addition of a warning light and the rerouting of electric wires. The FAA’s…