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At last, Medview begins airlift of stranded London, Lagos passengers

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Blames accident at Gatwick airport, CAA for situation Stranded Medview passengers eventually heaved a sigh of relief as the carrier today commenced airlift of stranded passengers both in Lagos and London days after they were left stranded. This is coming as the airline attributed flights the disruption by the accident at Gatwick airport, which it said, “affected other airlines”, and also the inability of the civil aviation authority to grant the necessary permits…

How new 5% new allocation will save AIB from collapse-Olateru

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Wole Shadare

30 accident reports pending Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Akin Olateru said all the agency relies on to survive and to meet its enormous challenges of accident investigation is allocation of three per cent from the Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) and now five per cent of the Passenger Service Charge (PSC) recently approved by the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika. This has caused furore by a segment of the aviation sector questioning the…

Air Côte d’Ivoire acquires A320 at colourful ceremony in Toulouse

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Air Côte d’Ivoire, the Ivory Coast’s flagship airline based in Abidjan, received its new A320 at a ceremony that was held at the Airbus Delivery Centre in Toulouse yesterday. The ceremony was jointly presided over by Didier Evrard, Airbus Executive Vice President Programmes and General Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Chairman of Air Côte d’Ivoire’s Board of Directors. Air Côte d’Ivoire had already chosen the A320 family because of its exceptionally comfortable cabin, low operating costs…

Aviation as catalyst for Nigeria’s growth

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Wole Shadare

x-rays how Nigeria’s aviation sector could rub off on the economy and add significantly to her Gross Domestic Product (GDP) if the right steps are taken The financial turbulence of the past few years threw a spotlight on many key industries and their respective roles in growth or decline of the Nigerian economy. Little notice was taken of one sector that has consistently been creating and supporting jobs while making significant, to say the…

NCAA, union in fresh face-off over promotion

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Except a truce is reached before tomorrow, workers’ union in the aviation industry under the aegis of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) are prepared for a show-down with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) over promotion of workers in the agency. Consequently, the union has concluded plans to ground the agency until their demands are met. A top official of the union, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed to Woleshadare.net the resolve of the…

Again Medview fails to airlift stranded passengers

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Medview Airlines has again failed to airlift stranded passengers from Lagos and London for the second day running, further compounding their woes. Most of the stranded passengers expressed disappointment with the turn of event, lamenting the psychological torture they had been subjected since last week. The Lagos-London flight was rescheduled to depart the country at 1.30pm today, but failed to do so like the previous day, Sunday. The flight VL 0209, was however rescheduled to depart the country…

Lufthansa airlifted 60 million passengers in first half 2017

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Records 12 million passengers in June The airlines of the Lufthansa Group welcomed on board around 12 million passengers in June 2017. This shows an increase of 18 per cent compared to the previous year’s month. The available seat kilometers were up 12.3 per cent over the previous year; at the same time, sales increased by 15.9 per cent. The seat load factor improved accordingly, rising 2.6 percentage points to 82.8 per…

Medview’s passengers stranded in London, Lagos

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Wole Shadare

UK CAA yet to perfect Medview’s leased plane Nigerian flag carrier airline, Medview left score of London bound passengers stranded at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The over 120 passengers who had arrived at the Lagos airport as early as 8 am for their 1 pm departure were shocked when check-in could not commence with many of them claiming that no official of the airline was on hand to tell them what was happening. A lawyer, Mr. Kunle Sanyaolu…

Passenger on Emirates slumps, dies on arrival at Lagos airport

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Wole Shadare

A passenger on Emirates Airlines today slumped and died at the Lagos airport. The deceased, Dada Isaac Olusola with passport number A04501199 was said to have slumped on arrival at the checkpoint screening point where he was quickly attended to and given medication by Airport Clinical Personnel. The passenger was accompanied by his wife and members of the Lions Club. His remains was taken away by his wife to the Morgue at 18:00hrs. …

Bane of private investors, by Minister, Babalakin, others

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Wole Shadare

Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, Chairman, The Resort Group, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), and others have identified the major problems militating against private investment in Nigeria as inadequate education among government officials about the issues involved in Public-Private Partnership (PPP), lack of legal framework, inconsistent government policies and failure to honour agreements validly entered into. According to them, until these problems are resolved, there would always be dearth of the expected…

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