Top Stories

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) announced that IATA’s Cargo-XML messaging standard has been fully integrated into WCO’s Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS), a risk assessment tool available to WCO member countries worldwide.   The integration of Cargo-XML in the WCO CTS enables electronic communication between airlines and customs authorities using the IATA Cargo-XML standards format.   This will make communication simpler and more effective, and facilitate more…

Poised to have a strong presence on the West Coast, Med-View Airline will on Monday, October 27 spread its wings to Abidjan, Conakry and Dakar with an inaugural flight. With the three new cities, the airline now has six destinations on the West Coast as Accra, Monrovia and Freetown are already on its network. The flights to the new destinations will be three times a week – Monday, Wednesday  and  Friday with early departures (7.30am)…

Last week, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) commissioned the multi storey car park at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with so much fanfare. Without doubts, the airport was in dire need of a befitting car park. With the speed at which the facility was completed, one would think that other facilities would get same speedy attention. Anyway, the multi storey car park is said to be financed by a commercial Bank and one…

An aviation expert and pioneer Chief Executive, Integrated Intelligence Imaging West Africa Ltd (I-CUBE WA Ltd), Moyosola Niran-Oladunni, has called for the review of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), stating that the agency needs to be wholly privatised and remodelled as Nigerian Airports Management Holding Company. He reiterated that his idea is to convert FAAN to Nigeria Airports Management Holding Company with the Federal Government controlling substantial equity holding. To him, the holding…

Passenger demand to expand by 5.7% yearly –IATA Problems associated with blocked funds in Africa is yet to abate as the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said airlines’ trapped funds in Africa are an increasing problem with carriers as they are unable to repatriate their foreign currency earnings from nine African countries. Before now, Nigeria, Egypt, Angola and Sudan topped countries in the region with $2 billion revenues belonging to the carriers. In June, the…

The airlines of the Lufthansa Group — Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings — will become even more attractive in the winter season 2017/18.   Passengers can continue to enjoy the high level of service, quality and reliability of the Lufthansa Group on countless new routes – all from Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt via Frankfurt.   In the upcoming winter flight schedule for 2017/18, the airlines will be offering…

 At least, 4,281 Nigerians were repatriated through various countries in Europe, America and even some African countries through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos alone in the first half of 2017.   Also, a total number of 691,934 travellers departed through the airport while another 560,988 travellers arrived the country within the period under review.   A document made available to Woleshadare.net through the Ministry of Interior, indicated that the deportees were divided into…

 A330neo production gears up at Airbus facilities    As Airbus prepares for the first flight of the A330-900, production of the second member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, is well underway with the first parts advancing at Airbus sites throughout Europe.    These parts include the new increased-span wing now being equipped in Bremen (Germany) and its new composite Sharklets from KAL-ASD*, the fuselage sections in Hamburg (Germany), the new titanium pylons in Toulouse…

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts Africa will be a market of 350 million airline passengers by 2035 and identified four priorities which must be addressed if aviation is to deliver maximum economic and social benefits for the countries on the continent.   African aviation currently supports 6.8 million jobs and contributes $72.5 billion in GDP. Over the next 20 years passenger demand is set to expand by an average of 5.7 per…