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Gambia grants Overland Airways Fifth Freedom Right to deepen SAATM

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Gambia grants Overland Airways Fifth Freedom Right to deepen SAATM

Carrier launches flight to Banjul Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Overland Airways has been granted the Fifth Freedom right by The Gambian Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA); a significant boost to widening the airline’s operations from any part of The Gambia to any destination within the sub-region in line with the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), a policy of the Africa Union (AU) that liberalises the African skies. The Director-General of GCAA, Nfansu Bojang disclosed on…

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How Air Peace instigates airlines to hike fares, Commission cautions carrier against obstructing inquiry

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How Air Peace instigates airlines to hike fares, Commission cautions carrier against obstructing inquiry

Onyema engaging in ostentation self-adulation-FCCPC   The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) said it noted with consternation, the latest outburst by Air Peace in what seems a series of ploys calculated to both obfuscate the issues and distract the Commission from the ongoing inquiry into alleged exploitative ticket pricing among other potential violations of consumers’ rights. The commission disclosed that the inquiry into Air Peace’s pricing practices stems from allegations of unjustified fare…

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Turkish Airlines, union spat festers, NUATE wants GM exit from Nigeria

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Turkish Airlines, union spat festers, NUATE wants GM exit from Nigeria

  …Carrier’s $6000 fraud allegation by seven Nigerians cooked The truce brokered by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) over the face-off between Turkish Airlines and unions in the aviation industry may have yielded no result as the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has chided the General Manager of the airline, Lokman Balkan for the way he is handling the issue that saw the union picket the carrier last week In a statement issued on…

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NCAA lifts United Nigeria’s plane suspension, carrier begs passengers

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NCAA lifts United Nigeria’s plane suspension, carrier begs passengers

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has lifted the suspension placed on the Part G operations specifications of a wet-leased Airbus aircraft operated by United Nigeria Airlines. The agency had last Sunday suspended the airline’s Airbus following after it temporarily diverted its flight NUA 0504 headed for Abuja to Asaba. In a letter signed by the NCAA’s Director of Licensing and Training, Captain I.B Danbazzau and, addressed to the Managing Director of the airline, the…

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