Aviation

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced global passenger traffic results for October showing that demand rose 6.3 per cent compared to the same month in 2017.

South African Airways (SAA) yesterday said it had flown over 3.2 million passengers between Lagos and Johannesburg in the last 20 years, Group Chief Executive, Vuyani Jarana said.

The Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika says Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and his luxury jet were subjected to routine security measures at the airport when he returned from Dubai where he had been strategizing on the 2019 presidential election.

Presidential candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Sunday said security agents at the Nigerian airport searched his luxury jet at around past midnight when he returned from Dubai, where he had been strategizing for his election.

   By Yemi Akinsuyi  The Nigeria Police Force has distanced itself from media reports that the use of her helicopters for commercial operations has sparked a row in the aviation sector.

Nigeria is among countries whose airlines were banned from flying into the European Union, latest reports reveal following crash of Lion Air of Indonesia.  Nigeria has no national carrier but Arik Air and a host of other indigenous airlines have made incursions into international travels with Arik being the face …

A Lion Air flight with 189 people on board crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday in a blow to the country’s aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and U.S.

  By Tony Obiechina  The federal government has assured verified former workers of the liquidated Nigeria Airways that payment of their entitlements would commence this week. The government has also allayed the fears of the pensioners whose names were reportedly missing or omitted in the ongoing verification exercise taking place simultaneously …

    By Tony Obiechina  The federal government has extended the ongoing verification exercise of Nigeria Airways Limited former workers and assured that the exercise will not end until everybody was captured. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, stated this on Wednesday during her on-the-spot assessment visit of …

The  turboprop aircraft belonging to Overland Airways was on Friday severely damaged by fire while parked at the airline’s hanger at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.