Aviation

There are indications that the number of passengers travelling out of the country through the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos has increased tremendously since the beginning of election week. A source […]

Air accident investigation experts using information from aircraft-tracking sites rule out explosion or mid-air stall The crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 in the French Alps with the presumed loss of 150 lives occurred after an […]

Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier is extending its Abuja-Accra service to Dakar, Senegal from March 24, 2015. Similarly, the Lagos-Dakar service will be strengthened to six weekly flights with a new thrice […]

Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier is extending its Abuja-Accra service to Dakar, Senegal from March 24, 2015. Similarly, the Lagos-Dakar service will be strengthened to six weekly flights with a new thrice […]

Arik Air, West Africa’s largest commercial carrier, has partnered the Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria, SCFN to raise over N5million to fight the burden of the disorder in the country. The support is in form of […]

In a final rule that was included in Federal Register on July 15, 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of America announced that it was going to increase the qualification requirements for first officers who […]

A stowaway was today discovered on an Arik Air plane at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, ikeja, Lagos. Arik Air engineers were checking the aircraft in preparation for a flight when the body of the […]

The reason for this article is to clearly educate our government, stakeholders, and the general public on how rulemaking or effective policy decision in aviation is processed in a rational country like the USA. Over […]

An unstable currency is a precursor to airline failure. Even in a stable economy, airline business is virtually unprofitable, or has very low return on investment. Since October 2014, our currency, the naira, has been […]

An unstable currency is a precursor to airline failure. Even in a stable economy, airline business is virtually unprofitable, or has very low return on investment. Since October 2014, our currency, the naira, has been […]

Arik Air, West Africa’s largest carrier, has introduced a new schedule for its Lagos-Abuja-Dubai route as the airline moves its operations to Terminal 2 at Dubai Airport. The new schedule which comes into effect on […]

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Thursday said it would publish the names of all its debtors, including airlines, concessionaires and other service providers at all Nigerian airports. This was contained in a statement […]

For over five years now, a Nigerian-owned airline has been enjoying an exclusive New York-to-Lagos route. Although there have been challenges with Arik Air, the airline may have come to stay, and figuring out a […]

It is no secret, world over, that the worst investment is in commercial aviation— airline. It is even super risky to engage in airline business in Nigeria because of the unstable government policies; cost of […]