Aviation

By Sumaila Ogbaje The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced resumption of flight operations at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja new terminal hours after fire scare on Saturday.

Capt. Roy Ilegbodu, the Managing Director, Arik Air, Capt. Roy Ilegbodu yesterday said the huge debts incurred by the airline’s former management was one of the major factors hindering its return to international operations.

 By Abdul Jelil, Abuja The federal government has banned Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes from flying into Nigeria’s airspace following a fatal crash in Ethiopia over the weekend.

A group of aviation professionals, the Aviation Round Table (ART), has called for the temporary suspension of the Boeing 737 MAX 800 aircraft from commercial operations due to safety concerns.

Investigators have found the flight data recorders from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday.

Professor Pius Adesanmi, a writer, literary critic, satirist, columnist and Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, has been named as one of the 157 persons that died yesterday when an aircraft B-737-800MAX with registration number ET- AVJ belonging to Ethopian airlines crashed shortly after take off.

Nigerian carrier, Air Peace, on Tuesday said its planned flights services to Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates would be operated from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

By Busayo Onijala Lagos, March. 1, 2019 (NAN) The British Airways, which is the largest airline in the United Kingdom has released a range of low fares for the spring season. The return fares go for as low as $169(N61, 000) $2, 009 (about N730, 000) and $5, 800 (about …

Akwa Ibom state government has strengthened its industrialization renaissance with the launching of two aircrafts to kick-start government’s owned commercial airline, “Ibom Air”, unveiled by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Domestic airlines are counting losses over the last minute postponement of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).