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Kano, P/H on 11th, others 15th while international flights will be announced soon MINISTER of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika has announced the resumption of domestic flight operations from July the 8th, 2020 with the Murtala Muhammed Airport and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. This is just as he has put the resumption of Kano, Port Harcourt and Maiduguri Airports at …

EUROPEAN Union’s Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) authorization to serve European member states over safety concerns, the agency says, days after Pakistan’s aviation ministry ordered grounding of 150 pilots over fraud fears. A Pakistan inquiry, after the May 22, PIA Airbus A320 crash in which 98 people were killed, found that almost a third of …

SEQUEL to some abuses that transpired during the lockdown, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has banned the age long use of private jets for charter flight services in a move it says will check the abuse of private jets in the country and regularize their operations. This ban, which many charter operators have been clamoring for came into effect …

NIGERIAN carrier, Air Peace continues to show capacity as the airline has evacuated 327 Nigerians from London in its maiden flight to London. The airline’s Boeing 777 aircraft with registration number 5N-BWI departed Heathrow Airport London earlier today and arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 20:41hrs, Nigerian time. After disembarking some passengers in Abuja, the aircraft will proceed …

FOLLOWING the release of an initial investigation fingering human error as the primary reason for last month’s crash, state-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended 150 pilots after questions over the authenticity of their licenses emerged. This is as the Pakistani aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan told Parliament that 262 of Pakistan’s 860 active, licensed pilots had been found to …

The FAAN boss went further to state that the cap on the value of PSC is simply outdated as the last review of PSC on domestic routes from N350 to N1000 and US$35 to US$50 dollars on the international route was on May 1, 2022 and March 21, 2011 respectively, all seven (7) years ago.

IN 2008, March 15 to be precise, the country woke up to a tale of the missing aircraft; an aircraft owned and operated by Wings Aviation which took off  and after a while vanished from radar, just dropped off the face of the earth. Although it took seven months for the truth of the aircraft to come out, and the …

FEDERAL Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has moved its corporate headquarters to Abuja in compliance with the directive of the Federal Ministry of Aviation that all agencies in the sector relocate their corporate headquarters to Abuja. This movement is aimed at ensuring operational efficiency, while also improving the quality of service delivery to our esteemed customers. Already, the Managing Director, …

THE continuous use of foreign airlines by the Federal Government for evacuation of the country’s citizens despite local capacity is creating wrong impressions about Nigeria and the safety of its airlines, aviation stakeholders and investors have said. These players have continued to kick against the continuous use of foreign airlines also allude to a weakness of government urging them to …

KINGDOM of Saudi Arabia has announced it will hold a “very limited” hajj this year, barring Muslims outside the kingdom from performing the annual ritual as it moves to curtail the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the Gulf. The decision marks the first time in Saudi Arabia’s modern history that the kingdom has made such a bold move. The kingdom’s hajj …