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    The management of Medview Airlines Plc has said that the pending suit instituted by its chairman, Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al-Thunayan has nothing to do with the operations of the carrier including the sale and leasing of aircraft. Al-Thunayan has a matter currently in the subject of a suit bothering on non payment of his dividend which is  pending at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court. In a statement made available to…

  African airlines are set to lose $2 billion in 2020 and the continent’s industry is “at risk of collapse” without more urgent financial relief, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The governments of Sub-Saharan Africa Rwanda, Senegal, Côte D’Ivoire and Burkina Faso have pledged a total of $311 million in direct financial support to air transport. A further $30 billion has been promised by some governments, international finance bodies and other institutions…

  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…