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No going back on airport closure, says Amaechi   Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, said that one of the airlines operating at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja has been grounded due to gear damage caused by bad runway. The minister said that the Federal Government was not going back on the closure of the Abuja airport for six weeks for repair works.   The gear of the Lufthansa aircraft got damaged as a result…

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has promised to support the Nigerian Air Force in the training of its critical manpower especially in the area of air traffic control.   The Managing Director of the agency, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu made this disclosure while receiving students and instructors of the Department of Air Warfare of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji at NAMA headquarters in Lagos.   He noted that the safety and security…

One of Africa’s fastest growing airlines; RwandAir has concluded arrangements to expand flight operations into Harare and Mumbai in April, 2017. This is just as the carrier said it hopes to expand flights into other routes including Lilongwe, Bamako Bamako , in Mali, Conakry , New York and London. Country Manager, RwandAir, Ms. Ibiyemi Odusi, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Monday. According to her, “This year, there are plans for New York, London, Mumbai,…

Nigerian airline operators said last year went down as one of the toughest and most challenging for them. They, however, see improvement in the sector this year, saying the industry has the potentials to witness good growth in 2017 if recession abates. Some operators, who spoke to Woleshadare.net under condition of anonymity, said the situation was caused by the far-reaching implications of some underlying factors in the macro environment such as the devaluation of naira…

  *We have capacity to process domestic, int’l flights-CEO     Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2), Lagos, said it has the capacity to process all domestic flights and passengers during the proposed closure of Abuja airport for total rehabilitation.   During the closure, it is expected that traffic to Lagos would increase exponentially as many international carriers said they would prefer to operate their flights to…

  *Backs closure, knocks NCAA, FAAN     Nigerian aviation industry pressure group, Aviation Round Table (ART) has taken a holistic assessment of the decision  to shut down the Abuja aerodrome and came with a verdict that the airport needs to closed to carry out comprehensive work.   The group faulted calls that the airport should not be shut but managed to allow smaller aircraft to land. It said that out of the 3.6km runway…

Chief Financial Officers of many airlines across the globe have reported that profitability was unchanged in fourth quarter of 2016 compared to that in the same period of 2015. This is the result of international Air Transport Association (IATA) quarterly business confidence survey in early January 2017. Industry heads were slightly more optimistic about the outlook for profits over the coming 12 months than they were in October’s survey. But set against a more difficult…

FG may allow regional flights for MMA2 There are indications that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) would begin to plan diversion of flights to Lagos as foreign airlines have maintained that they would rather fly to Lagos than operate to Kaduna Airport following plans to shut the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for a total rehabilitation of the airport’s runway. If the airlines make good their plans to come to Lagos rather than…