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Registration policy: Private jet owners defy FG

Posted by admin Aviation, Latest Politics Sunday, September 8th, 2013

Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah | credits: File copy Owners and operators of foreign-registered private jets in the country are not ready to de-register them to enable their planes become Nigeria-registered in line with the new National Civil Aviation Policy 2013 unveiled by the Federal Government in May, investigations by our correspondent have shown. […]

I didn’t abandon Daniel – Teenage stowaway father

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Thursday, September 5th, 2013

Two weeks after his son flew from Benin City to Lagos in the wheel compartment of an aircraft belonging to Arik Air, Daniel Ohikhena’s father denies claims that he abandoned his family, writes JAMES AZANIA Little is known about Daniel Ohikhena, the 13-year-old stowaway who flew from Benin City to Lagos in the wheel compartment […]

Stowaway boy thought Arik Flight was US bound

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Monday, August 26th, 2013

THE teenage stowaway, Daniel Ihekina, who was arrested at the Lagos Airport after flying in the tyre hole of an Arik plane from Benin to Lagos on Saturday morning, thought he was on a US-bound flight. A source at the Benin Airport who disclosed this said the boy’s parents had already departed for Lagos in […]

Ethiopian Airlines to commence flight to Enugu – Official

Posted by admin Aviation, Enugu, Headlines, State News Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

Ethiopian Airlines has said it is set to commence four weekly flights to Nigerian cities including Enugu, the capital of Enugu State beginning from August 24. Mr Tewolde Gebremariam, the Ethiopian airline chief executive confirmed this to newsmen in Addis Ababa. It will be recalled that the airline in a statement last month announced plans […]

Opinion: Saving Nigerians from their airlines

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Monday, July 29th, 2013

Last Wednesday, I left Abuja city for the airport, to catch a scheduled 7pm Arik Air flight to Lagos. I got to the airport at 6pm, got my boarding pass, and waited for the boarding announcement. I expected we would depart sometime between 7pm and 8pm. At 7pm, an announcement came that our flight was […]

Aviation workers threaten to ground flight operations today

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Monday, May 20th, 2013

Workers of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency on Sunday vowed to paralyse activities in the aviation sector, including flight operations, on Monday (today), after a meeting between their union leaders and NAMA management over salary dispute ended in a deadlock on Friday. The planned industrial action is coming on the heels of a 14-day ultimatum […]

FG to approve foreign airlines’ summer schedule

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Indications emerged late on Wednesday that the summer flight schedule of the 24 foreign airlines operating into Nigeria might be approved before the end of this week. Our correspondent gathered that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Aviation had begun moves to fast-track the approval process following a story by The PUNCH on Wednesday […]

NCAA stops Aero from flying six planes

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Thursday, April 4th, 2013

The labour crisis rocking Aerocontractors Airlines is far from over as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has restricted the embattled carrier to operating only three out of its nine operational aircraft. Aero has about 14 aircraft in its fleet but only nine are currently in operation. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that rather operating all […]

FG blame pilots, airline for Bellview, ADC crashes

Posted by admin Aviation, Latest Politics Saturday, February 16th, 2013

The Federal Government through the Accident Investigation Bureau on Saturday, released reports of the air crashes involving Bellview Airlines, Aviation Development Company, and six other aircraft operators. The report came over six years after the Bellview and ADC crashes led to the death of 213 people in 2005 and 2006 respectively. The six other minor […]

FAAN commences destruction of 65 abandoned planes

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Friday, January 25th, 2013

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Thursday commenced the destruction of 65 airplanes abandoned at various airports across the country by domestic airlines. The action followed the expiration of the one-week ultimatum given by the agency to owners of the abandoned aircraft to evacuate them from the airports. The destruction exercise started at the […]