Bristow Helicopter Limited on Thursday promised to assist survivors and families of the dead victims of its ill-fated chopper that plunged into the lagoonon Wednesday in Lagos. Bristow Regional Director for Africa Duncan Moore made the pledge in a statement in Lagos. “Our thoughts are with those affected by the unfortunate accident. We regret the…
As Nigeria begins a new calendar year, the Federal Government has been called upon to make the training of personnel in the safety critical areas of the sector a priority to equip them to be able to enforce safety rule, regulations and reports. An Aviation Security Expert and Chief Executive Officer of Centurion securities, Grp…
There are indications that the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) may have concluded plans to ground domestic airlines indebted to the Agency. We learnt from sources close to the airspace agency that the decision to ground the indebted airlines became necessarily following the refusal of the airlines to service the debts owed the agency, which stood…
Countries all over the world have national carriers, which serve as part of the country of origin’s image booster and to make the national carrier to continue to operate flights countries sometimes make laws to compel public officers from the home country of the carrier to patronise the carrier. The measure is also aimed at…
Africa World Airlines, a new entrant into the Nigerian airspace has promised to pay travel agencies 5 per cent commission for sale of its tickets, just as it commenced two daily return flights from Accra to Lagos. With this development, Africa World Airlines becomes one of the 24 international airlines operating into the Nigerian airspace. Head…
Aviation Minister, Mrs. Stella Oduah, has declared that the Nigeria Aerotropolis project will generate an estimated N100 billion annually for the country. She also disclosed that the United State, China, Turkey and other European countries have shown interest in the Aerotropolis project. The Minister said that the project will provide at least 10 million jobs for…
As Nigerians continue waiting to see the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), an umbrella body of domestic airlines in Nigeria, carry out its threat not to pay charges to agencies in the aviation sector, one of the stakeholders and an airline operator has said that the threat to stop payment of charges did not come from…
Aviation sector is safety driven Aviation, all over the world, is a safety driven sector. Therefore, serious players and stakeholders in the industry cannot afford to handle safety or safety related issues with levity. A lot of safety related issues in the Nigerian aviation industry have consistently been in the news for some time now…
Dubai’s Emirates Airline was found to have evaded almost $30 million (about N4.8 billion) in service taxes in India over the last five years, according to authorities in the country. Non-payment of the tax, which is levied on all airlines that pick-up passengers within India was detected during a service tax audit. The total amount is…
Most passengers are in every sense like you! Show up at the airport, check in, get onboard, read the emergency leaflet, listen or don’t listen to the safety briefing by the cabin crew as they have been flying for so long and have heard it too many times. When I ask those passengers how many seats…
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