Aviation News

NATIONAL Association of Nigerian Students ( NANS) this morning made good their threat as they cordoned off access and exit to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport ( MMIA) Terminal in Lagos in protest of the ongoing seven month strike instituted by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Under the heavy rains in Lagos the students, numbering hundreds, used vehicles …

NIGERIA Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) has reissued domestic carrier, Azman Air it’s Air Transport License ( ATL) after spat over N1.2bn debt accured from unremitted Ticket Sales and Cargo Sales Charges.   The license signed by the Director General NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu was sighted by NigerianFLIGHTDECK read NCAA/ATR1/ATL118 is valid for a five (5) year period from 2022 …

MANAGING Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria( FAAN), Captain Rabiu Yadudu has said that everyday no fewer than four people are arrested at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos attempting to beat the system.   This is just as he has said that aviation security is reactive but that even as FAAN puts up measures to curb incursions into the airports, …

NIGERIA Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed that it is withholding the Air Transport License ( ATL) of local operator Azman Air till a time when the carrier provides the required documentation for its operational licenses renewal and sign a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) on how it would remit it’s N1.2bn legacy debt accrued from collection of Ticket Service …

AZMAN Air is said to have told its workforce not to show up for work today following  operational reasons; but information going round is that the airline may not have renewed it’s Air Operators Certificate ( AOC). NigerianFLIGHTDECK learnt from a source that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) suspended its operation for failing to meet the requirements for AOC …

AIRPORT Manager at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport, Kano Gambo Aboki Abubakar may have cut the power off offices and quarters of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency( NAMA) over N500m debt.   This has not gone down well with members of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) who have threatened to shut down air navigational aids and safety services …

NigerianFLIGHTDECK’s check of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Act 2006 has revealed that the unions were 16 years too late in discovering contents within the Act as the clauses they are about to protest on have been in existence since   Joint unions including the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria( ATSSSAN), National …

THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Seafarers’ Travel document amongst others as part of efforts to deepen existing inter-agency collaboration. The NIS and NIMASA have also identified issuance of temporary work permits to international vessel crews as well as preventing stowaways, as areas of …

NATIONAL Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) has said that the delay in the repatriation of the funds by foreign carriers emboldened them to exploit Nigerian air travellers but has insisted that foreign airlines do not sell tickets in dollars. Just as the body has alleged that the high fares on airlines inventories are targeted at Nigerians describing it as …

THE 2.7 kilometres (2,700m) long 18 Left 36 Right( 18L/36R) Murtala Muhammed domestic runway is said to have achieved 90% completion with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN) stressing that it intends to meet its 90 days deadline but would rather delay and do a thorough job instead. Managing director of FAAN, Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu who inspected …