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Emirates completes world’s longest direct flight

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

Emirates completed the world’s longest direct commercial flight Wednesday, when one of its planes flew from Dubai to Auckland. The 8,824-mile flight from the United Arab Emirates’ biggest city to New Zealand’s biggest city surpassed the Quantas Sydney, Australia to Dallas, Tx. flight by 250 miles. The Airbus A380 that made the haul is the world largest passenger plane as well, adding extra distinction to the flight, but it will be a Boeing 777-200LR flying…

Medview spreads wings to Kaduna

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Medview has added Kaduna to its domestic network with a direct daily flight from Lagos effective Monday,March 7, 2016. In the new schedule released by the airline, the Lagos flight will connect Abuja from Kaduna on its return journey. The flight is billed to depart Lagos by 7.30 am and arrive Kaduna at 8.30 am, and thereafter depart for Abuja at 9.10 am. With Kaduna, Medview Airline has eight cities- Lagos,…

NCAA lifts suspensionon Bristow’s Sikorsky aircraft

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has lifted the suspension it placed on Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria) Limited Sikorsky S-76 aircraft shortly after the helicopter type was involved in ditching in the Atlantic Ocean last month. The suspension was lifted after the completion of the NCAA’s comprehensive operational audit and the company’s extensive return to service safety activities. Bristow Group Vice President, Global Operations, Mike Imlach said the firm completed a detailed safety inspection of…

AIB sets to review regulations

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

*Amaechi, Sirika to attend The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika are among the top dignitaries that would attend the review of the Civil Aviation Investigation of Air Accidents and Incidents Regulations 2006 spearheaded by the Accident Investigation Bureau. The workshop, which is slated for next week Tuesday in Lagos at the Western Hotels, Ikeja would also witness in attendance other top aviation stakeholders and professionals from the…

Workers seek substantive MD for NAMA

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

Following the crisis that has engulfed the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) over alleged N5 billion fraud and subsequent arrest of top officials of the agency, a coalition of Aviation Union and Professional association have called for the appointment of a substantive Managing Director for NAMA. The group in a statement signed by its spokesman, Johnson Agbede and made available to the media stated that if urgent steps are not taken, this could adversely…

Akinkuotu appointed substantive CEO for Aero

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

The Receiver Manager, Mr. Adeniyi Adegbonmire has appointed Capt. Fola Akinkuotu as substantive CEO for Aero Contractors, as part of the second phase of the restructuring process of the airline. According to Mr. Adegbonmire, the second phase of the intervention was to appoint a CEO after 15 days of the tenure of Tunde Fagbemi of Springfountain, the Receiver Manager Representative (RMR). Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, who was the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority…

Air traffic controllers support FG to rid NAMA of graft

Posted on March 6, 2016March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

*Ten years after installation, TRACON has no back-up *Seek probe of other agencies The Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) has lent it support to the Federal Government’s efforts to sanitise the aviation industry of alleged impunity and corrupt practices that it said have bedevilled the industry for some years now. President and Secretary General of NATCA, Victor Eyaru and Banji Olawode in a statement today, said the recent revelation from the Economic and…

NCAA issues safety guidelines on Sikorsky Helicopters

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) yesterday, ordered all airlines operating the Sikorsky S76C series to carry out a safety inspection on this helicopter type with immediate effect. As an interim safety measure, the under-listed safety inspections affects all Sikorsky S76C series helicopters operating in Nigeria. The action requires that visual inspection be carried out in accordance with relevant S76C AMM 20-32-00, detailed inspection in accordance with relevant S76C AMM 66-00-00, and detailed inspection in…

Nigeria’s aviation loses N400bn yearly – air transporters

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Wole Shadare

Stakeholders in the aviation industry have petitioned the Federal Government over Nigeria’s loss of over N400 billion annually for its inability to maximise the huge potentials in the sector. The Secretary General of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Olayinka Abioye, said this in Lagos. He said that it is an ugly realisation that while in isolated countries such as Iceland and New- Zealand, air transport contributes five per cent to their Gross Domestic…

Nigeria, IATA pledge air safety for Africa

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Wole Shadare

In a move to further improve air transport safety in Africa, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Nigeria have pledged to collaborate closely in developing and rolling out a set of measures intended to enhance the African Union’s 2012 Abuja Declaration on Aviation Safety in Africa. This pledge was a key outcome from a meeting held between Nigeria’s Civil Aviation Authority Director General, Captain Muhtar Usman and Tanja Grobotek, IATA’s Regional Director, Safety and…

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