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West Africa’s biggest carrier, Air Peace increased its tally of firsts, setting a new record as the first commercial airline to fly into the newly-built Bayelsa International Airport. The airline, which is credited with many recording-setting events, including being the first to acquire and register a Boeing 777 in Nigeria as well as the first carrier in West Africa to order the Boeing 737 MAX 8, flew a 50-seater Embraer 145 jet into the Bayelsa…

Emirates to reduce its A380 orderbook by 39 aircraft   Orders 40 A330neo and 30 A350s    Last delivery of A380 scheduled for 2021   Following a review of its operations, and in light of developments in aircraft and engine technologies, Emirates is reducing its A380 orderbook from 162 to 123 aircraft.   Emirates will take delivery of 14 further A380s over the next two years. As a consequence and given the lack of order backlog…

To minimise security thread and insider threat to security challenges at many of the country’s airport, the Aviation Security department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has concluded plans to overhaul security architecture at many of the aerodromes including the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. Director, Security Services, FAAN, Usman Salim Abubakar Sadiq while speaking  on the side-lines of Aviation Security (AVSEC) summit, with theme, “Aviation Security: MMA perspective held at the Lagos airport…

 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged the United States government and industry to work together to ensure that aviation is able to accommodate an expected 62 per cent rise in demand for air travel to, from and within the country over the next 20 years. Speaking at the International Aviation Club in Washington, D.C., Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO, noted that aviation already supports 6.5 million jobs in the United States…

Crew shut engines, fuel, battery before accident Crash caused by brownout Directs NCAA to issue circular to helicopter operators     The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) today released preliminary report involving Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo ‘s AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter crash in Kabba, Kogi State which occured on February 2, 2019, with disclosure that Caverton Helicopters Limited did not conduct site survey of the landing field prior to this flight. The helicopter experienced a hard landing on…

Attached is worn out tyre of an aircraft that trended on social media   We don’t know operators of aircraft with worn tyres – NCAA The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has stated that it has yet to identify the operator of the aircraft with worn out tyres pictures that are trending online. A picture of an aircraft worn out tires trended on the social since Monday, thereby painting the sector as unsafe and casting…

  Nigerian carriers need to coalesce to scale up to get a critical mass. Hence, WOLE SHADARE writes that they can work together to grow the sector   Market size Nigeria is blessed with the biggest domestic aviation market on the African Continent, bigger than South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and many other countries. Surprisingly, Nigeria has not been able to harness this market for her benefit. The beneficiaries are foreign airlines. Nigerian airlines need to…

   NAMA, Thales end rift The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has begun the overhaul of the 66 million total radar coverage of Nigeria, otherwise known as TRACON. The refurbishing of the airspace surveillance equipment could cost the government over $2 million or more according to a maintenance engineer who spoke to Woleshadarenews in Lagos under the condition of anonymity. The source that pleaded anonymity stated that NAMA would recondition the system to enable it…

         By Wole Shadare There have been inspiring stories of all female pilots for some time now. And they are beginning to take-over the aviation scene all over the world and Nigeria is not an exemption. These days however, things are different when it comes to which gender flies an airplane. Though there have been many influential women pilots throughout history, the question remains how often do you see a woman behind the ‘stick’ of a…

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has warned charter and non-scheduled airline operators and their agents to desist from payment of charges, bills and other financial transactions by cash.  The Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, in a meeting he held with the operators in his office said all financial transactions with the agency must be done through monetary transfers (only) into the NAMA TSA account domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),…