One of Africa’s fastest-growing carriers, United Nigeria Airlines, has signed an aircraft sale and purchase agreement with Southwest Airlines for the delivery of six Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Engineer Galadima Abednego is President of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE. Abednego, in this interview, discusses how brain drain is affecting the aviation sector.

Some domestic airlines have raised ticket prices to  South-East and South-South regions by 131 per cent ahead of the Yuletide.

By Dickson Omobola Unruly passenger behaviour has become a worrying development in the Nigerian air transport sector, leading industry analysts to call for amendments and stricter enforcement of the civil aviation regulations. The trend, which has left domestic airline operators visibly troubled, has also become a headache for the country’s civil aviation regulators, especially given the calibre […]

Unruly passenger behaviour has become a worrying development in the Nigerian air transport sector, leading industry analysts to call for amendments and stricter enforcement of the civil aviation regulations.

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has launched an investigation into the incident involving an unruly passenger, Comfort Emmason, and a member of Ibom Air crew, Julie Edwards.

…Airline failures fuelling state-owned carriers – Aligbe By Dickson Omobola THE Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company, Mr Bismarck Rewane, has criticised growing investments in airlines and airports by state governments, saying their priorities seemed misplaced. Rewane argued that rather than investing in airlines and building unviable airports, government should focus on providing social […]

ValueJet, a growing private Nigerian carrier, has concluded plans to launch a hat trick of routes from its hub in Lagos to Cotonou in Benin Republic, Accra in Ghana and Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, to connect West Africa and facilitate economic prosperity in the region.

Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s largest flag carrier, Air Peace, Allen Onyema, was a guest at the 29th Annual Conference of the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents themed: ‘Financing Aviation in Nigeria: Risks, Opportunities and Prospects,’ recently held in Lagos.

The Federal Government has officially granted Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) a Foreign Carrier Operation Permit (FCOP), clearing the way for the airline to commence direct flights between Tanzania and Nigeria.