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In keeping with its determination to build staff capacity for effective service delivery, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has organized two separate training workshops in Lagos for some of its critical personnel in Safety Management. Facilitated by Aviation Academy for Southern Africa (AAFSA), the trainings include a three-day workshop on Safety Management Systems (SMS) and a five-day training which focused on the Impact of Human Factor in Air Traffic Management Safety.   While the former was for members…

 DHL Express has become the first operator to take delivery of the A330-300 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) converted aircraft from Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the joint venture between ST Aerospace and Airbus. This delivery, which took place at EFW’s freighter conversion facilities in Dresden, follows the successful completion of test flights in October and awarding of the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in November. DHL Express has firm orders for eight A330-300P2F…

By Dominic Adewole The recent development over the budding Asaba International Airport has justified the popular saying that “not all that glitter is gold.” When in February 3, 2008, barely a year after the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, assumed office, the airport was conceived and awarded to a wholly indigenous civil engineering construction company – Messrs ULO Consultants Limited, the ‘prosperity for all Deltans’ mantra of the incumbent Governor Ifeanyi…

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance), Mr. Idris Yakubu, has promised to lead the attitudinal change and a fresh drive for excellence that the Company requires to move it to the next level. Speaking when he held his maiden meeting with staff at the Head Office of the Company, Yakubu said the Company requires a new and stronger service culture, and he was prepared to lead that change. He…

High risk tag scares lenders, leasing firms President, African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has taken a swipe at most African airlines, saying the operation of very old airplanes and lack of good business model have done incalculable damage to them, leading to extinction of many of the carriers. He disclosed this to Woleshadare.net at the recently-concluded International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) World Aviation Forum in Abuja. Adesina noted that Africa needs $150 billion…