For refusing their workers to join the trade union of their choice in the Nigerian aviation industry, the National Union of Air Transport Employee (NUATE), has once again threatened to picket erring airlines. The union insisted that the refusal of the airlines, especially domestic operators from allowing their staff to join any of the unions, ...
•Allen Onyema Nigerian airlines lose an estimated N15 billion annually to bad behaviours of passengers, which avoidably lead to flight delays. Dr. Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace, stated this to aviation correspondents yesterday in Lagos, reports Daily Independent. Onyema lamented that poor passenger behaviours constitute the major cau...
•An Airbus A-320 of the Lufthansa airline Lufthansa German Airlines, KLM, Egypt Air, Ethiopian Airlines, British Airways, Royal Air Maroc, RwandAir, and Turkish Airlines have all released all categories of low inventory tickets, following the intervention of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA). This followed the instruction by the Nig...
•An airplane Last year was the safest ever for commercial air travel, despite a massive rebound in passenger flights, an airline industry group said today. The only fatal accident of a passenger plane was the crash of an ATR turboprop operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines during a domestic flight, killing 72 people, according to the […]
Current operating aircraft of Nigerian carriers have dropped to 44 from about 107 a few years ago following the debilitatÂing foreign exchange crisis, investigation has revealed. The current statistics show that 63 aircraft of the scheduled operators are either grounded in the country or are in the various maintenance organisations outside Nig...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for releasing $64.44 million in blocked airline funds, but said $700 million remains blocked in Africa’s most populous nation. The group disclosed it was in consultations with airline members to verify the release of these revenues, reports Channels...
•CBN Governor Yemi Cardoso The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced the complete settlement of foreign exchange (FX) owed to all foreign airlines operating in the country. The final tranche of $64.44 million brings the total disbursements to airlines to $136.73 million, effectively clearing all verified claims within the sector, reports...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives at the weekend foiled a plot to convert the N50 billion bailout facility given by the Federal Government to airlines to an intervention fund. The move was frustrated by the House Committee on Public Accounts, chaired by Hon Bamidele Salam during the resumed investigative hearing into the m...
There’s a mounting pressure on the federal government to make significant releases to clear the foreign airlines’ trapped funds amidst their threat to exit Nigeria. This is despite the release of $61.4m by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week as part of efforts to clear outstanding liabilities and bolster the foreign exchange market, [&...
•Dust haze The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, in a report, released on Friday, predicted moderate dust haze with a horizontal visibility range of 2-5 km over the Northern region and the North Central states. “Moderate dust haze with horizontal visibility range of 2-5 km over the Northern region and the North Central states throughout the fore...