Analysis

Stakeholders met virtually last week to air their thoughts on the ongoing Nigeria Air project at the inaugural aviation town hall meeting hosted by Avaero Capital Partners. The general take away from the meeting is that of disappointment at the handling of the project. Strong views on the airline’s ability to employ Nigerians, its ownership structure and drive, its strength …

Unnecessary flight diversion due to runway closure, burning jet fuel  taxiing from the international to the domestic after daylight will all cease to exist as the installation of airfield lighting on the 2.7 kilometre 18L/36R Murtala Muhammed Airport is set to be complete and delivered soon. Runway 18L/36R which has been without airfield lighting since commissioning in 2008 is said …

Azman met conditions before granted ATL- DG NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced that the debt profile of airlines is put at N42BN and $7.8million for Ticket Sales and Passenger Sales Charges ( TSC/CSC) alone and the measures it has put in place is to ensure that these monies do not grow further and the debt are defrayed. The …

  THE letter from Emirates Airline to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika may just be the beginning of further woes to Nigerians travelling internationally as it shows just how trapped funds which has led to flight reduction by the airline and probably others may jack up airfares, isolate Nigeria from connectivity and impact on employment negatively, experts say.   …

As of today, Jet A1 also known as Aviation Fuel sells for N725 in Lagos, N740 in Abuja and N745 in Kano while other marketers have sold for N650 and N700 making the reach of the product near impossible and causing many airlines to go on panic mode in a bid to satisfy their passengers, some of whom have booked long before.

AIRBUS Helicopters and Nigerian-based, Helicopter company EAN Aviation Limited (EAN) have signed a partnership making EAN a distributor for Airbus Helicopters in West Africa. The strategic partnership between EAN Aviation Limited and Airbus Helicopters focuses on the West African civilian market, excluding Military. In essence, civil customers in Nigeria can now contract directly with EAN Aviation Limited who will be …

THE need to attract investments, especially Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) for airports across Nigeria is something practically every investor, government official and stakeholder wants to see happen, but for the issue of going about it without carrying the entire industry along, there could have been commendable strides. It was this gap that the management of the Federal Airports Authority of …

  WHAT solutions are available to halt a trend that is decades old? How do you end a crisis that is not only crippling aviation but even the average man? The fact that Nigeria finds itself in this precarious situation with the airlines unable to access or get right pricing for Jet A1 has been decades in the making.   …

  FOURTEEN gruelling years later and two approvals, it would seem federal government feels it is time to put in place Air Field Lighting ( AFL) for the 2.7 kilometre 18L/ 36R domestic runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport ( MMA) which was recommissioned in 2008 after refurbishment and rehabilitation without runway lights.   After years of complains by domestic …

  NO mean feat today as the entire aviation industry physically and virtually came out enmasse to celebrate with Mrs Henrietta Vathiri Yakubu, the immediate past General Manager of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN)’s Corporate Affairs department.   The immediate past GM already has left big shoes to be filled as people all around the industry have …