Airlines seeks fresh policy to survive-Bankole

Airlines seeks fresh policy to survive-Bankole

Airline wants Managing Director Medview Airlines, Muneer Bankole has called on the Federal Government to formulate policies that would the survival of Nigerian carriers. The country’s airlines are financial dire straits, leading to the short lifespan of less than 10 years for most of them, just as the carriers have petitioned the government on how it could assist them to take part in the huge market share and fairly compete with global airlines by reduction…

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Open Skies: Not a win-win for Nigeria, US

Open Skies: Not a win-win for Nigeria, US

Nigeria is currently at the receiving end of an agreement as United States-Nigeria ‘Open Skies’ defies the principle of reciprocity. Already, there are agitations for slight modification same way the US is pressurising Gulf carriers to slow down on entry into its territory. WOLE SHADARE writes When Nigeria signed the ‘Open Skies’ agreement with the United States in 2000, many thought of the benefits that would accrue from the pact, considering the fact that the…

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Port-Harcourt tops world’s worst airports for 2015

Port-Harcourt tops world’s worst airports for 2015

Culled from CNN, with additional report by Wole Shadare Traveling through Nigeria’s Port Harcourt International Airport any time soon? Sorry for your luck. Despite the over N500b spent by the administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and supervise by disgraced former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, the Port-Harcourt International Airport, top the list of world’s worst airports.   This should not come as a surprise to many. Infact, it is a vindication of the rot…

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