Aviation Archives — Page 19 of 27

July 23, 2018 No Responses

South African Airways Wins Best Airline Staff Award

South African Airways (SAA) has been voted the ‘Best Airline Staff in Africa’ at the annual World Airline Awards hosted by Skytrax, the Oscars of the aviation industry in London. In SAA’s sixth triumph, this award recognises service excellence covering...

July 22, 2018 No Responses

CPC Implores Airlines On Quality Service

The Director-General of Consumer Protection Council (CPC), Mr. Babatunde Irukera has challenged indigenous airlines to be more responsive to the expectations of air passengers. Irukera who made this call while addressing journalists during the 22ndAnnual Se...

July 20, 2018 No Responses

Airlines Seek Level Playing Field For Private Operators, Nigeria Air

Some domestic airline operators on Thursday urged the Federal Government to ensure a level playing field for them and the new national carrier. The airlines spoke at the 22nd Annual Seminar and Award of the League of Airports and Aviation...

July 19, 2018 No Responses

Excitement, Celebration As Ethiopia-Eritrea Commercial Flight Takes Off After 20 Years

The first commercial flight from Ethiopia to Eritrea in 20 years took off early on Wednesday, sealing a stunning reconciliation between the former enemies a week after they ended their military standoff. More than 400 passengers boarded two Ethiopian Airline...

July 19, 2018 No Responses

Reactions Trail Proposed New National Carrier

Mixed reactions on Wednesday trailed the unveiling of the name and logo of the proposed new national carrier by the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika. Sirika had unveiled the name of the new carrier as “Nigeria Air’’...

July 17, 2018 No Responses

National Carrier: Nigeria Intensifies Negotiation With Airbus, Others

Ahead of the proposed unveiling of Nigeria’s National carrier, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika has commenced negotiations with aircraft manufacturers and investors at the ongoing Farnborough International Air Show in the United Kingdom (U...

July 15, 2018 No Responses

Qatar Airways Deploys Airbus A350 To Edinburgh

Qatar Airways has upgraded its capacity to the Scottish capital, Edinburgh to the state-of-the-art Airbus A350-900, the first and only A350 service to Scotland. The airline in a statement said that its upgraded to the aircraft in order to meet...

July 13, 2018 No Responses

Foreign Airlines Seek Improved Infrastructure, Review Of Charges In Nigeria

Stakeholders in the Nigerian aviation industry have called on the Federal Government and its agencies to improve on the existing infrastructure in all the country’s aviation industry. The players in the sector also canvassed for downward review of charges,...

July 10, 2018 No Responses

Delta Air Lines Lifts 17.7m Passengers In June

Delta Air Lines airlifted 17.7 million passengers across its routes including Nigeria in June 2018, thereby becoming the busiest month for the carrier in its annals. According to the airline, June 2017, still holds the record for most customers...

July 9, 2018 No Responses

Virgin Atlantic Lifts 26m Passengers Out Of Nigeria In 17 Years

Virgin Atlantic Airways has airlifted 26 million passengers in and out of Nigeria since it commenced flight operations 17 years ago between Gatwick International Airport, London and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. Within the peri...

July 7, 2018 No Responses

Dana Air Reward Scheme Hits 18,000 Membership

Dana Air has rebranded its Dana Miles loyalty programme to Dana Miles Club This is as the airline confirmed that the membership of the reward programme has reached a record 18,000 Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, the Media and Communications...

July 5, 2018 No Responses

Air Peace To Operate All-Female Flight

Air Peace all female flight has been scheduled to take full charge of the carrier’s four-sector flights on the Lagos-Abuja, Abuja-Owerri, Owerri-Abuja and Abuja-Lagos routes on Thursday this week (Today). The development is coming days after Air Peace gav...

July 3, 2018 No Responses

NAMA Deploys Two VHF Radios

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has successfully deployed two Jotron high-powered very high frequency (VHF) long-range communication radios, each installed in Lagos West and Lagos East Area Control Centres (ACCs). NAMA explained that the this wa...

June 26, 2018 No Responses

Cameroon Airlines Returns To Lagos-Doula Route

The Cameroon Airlines Corporation (Camair-Co) has returned its direct flight from Doula to Lagos, Nigeria, years after suspending flight operations between the two routes. The airline returned to the route last Saturday according to a statement from its Nigeri...