Delta Air Lines announces 2017 September quarter profit
DELTA AIR LINES today reported financial results for the September quarter 2017 with adjusted pre-tax income for the quarter at $1.7 billion, a $182 million decrease from the September 2016 quarter. Pre-tax income includes a $120 million reduction from the operational disruption following Hurricane Irma that hit the Caribbean, Florida, Georgia and, specifically, Delta’s hub in Atlanta. “While we faced a...
Elumelu charges govt to prioritize SMEs, Creative Sector to drive economic turnaround
PRIORITY must be placed on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), the Creative Sector and access to electricity to drive job creation inclusive growth and the diversification of the economy according to Chairman of African proprietary investment company, Heirs Holdings, Tony O. Elumelu, CON. This is just as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that government has put in place...
Med-view Airline expands into francophone Africa: Abidjan, Conakry, Dakar
MED-VIEW Airline will on Friday October 27, 2017 start flight operations into Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, Conakry in Guinea and Dakar, the Senegal Capital in a bid to increase its presence on the West Coast routes. The airline is poised to commence flights into the three new cities, to bring its routes on he West Coast to six destinations...
Concession: unions place caveat on ‘cashcow’ airports, plans shutdown in 15 days
THREE unions have given Minister of State Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, 15 days to disband its discredited Transaction Advisors or risk an industrial action of gargantuan magnitude. The unions, Air Transport Senior Staff services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), National Union of Air Transport Employment (NUATE) and the National Union of Pensioners (NUP) gave this ultimatum in protest to the ongoing...
Ethiopian Academy graduates 262 professionals
ETHIOPIAN Aviation Academy a full ICAO TRAINAIR Plus Member and IATA Authorized/Accredited Training Center, has announced that it has graduated 262 aviation professionals at a graduation ceremony held at the academy’s Commercial and Cabin Crew Training center October 7, 2017. The academy has graduated 50 pilots, 66 aviation maintenance technicians, 120 cabin crew and 26 Equipment and Facility Maintenance technicians;...
1.2million travelers pass through MMIA in 1st half 2017- Immigration
ONE million two hundred and fifty-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-two (1,252,922) passengers have arrived and departed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos in the first half of 2017. Statistics from a document made available to our also made available to nigerianflightdeck.com revealed that no fewer than 4,281 Nigerians have been repatriated from countries in Europe, America and some...
FAAN enters agreement with LASEMA on difficult terrains, emergencies
MANAGEMENT of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to have access to difficult terrains and five nautical miles from the airport in case of emergency. Airport manager Murtala Muhammed Airport Ikeja MMIA, Mrs Victoria Shin-Aba who signed the agreement on behalf of FAAN said...
Passengers obligations and things to know about air travel
DO you know that passengers have obligations to airlines and service providers, which in simple terms mean that there are rules to be passengers as it doesn't end at just paying the fare. One of such obligations to airline is the right for passengers to treat staff of these airlines or service providers with respect and courtesy. A lot of times...
Unions’ picketing of airlines unsuccessful as Air Peace commends security agents, FAAN
PLANNED picketing of carriers in the Nigerian aviation industry did not go down as unions planned as they were barricaded from entering into the terminal building to disrupt any flight operations of airlines over alleged casualization. The unions could only gyrate around the terminal and watch helplessly as check-in and flights took place unhindered. One of the carriers in which the...
FAAN commissions 1,300 capacity multi-level car park at MMIA
FEDERAL Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has opened the biggest multi-layer purpose-built car park at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos in partnership with Seymour Aviation Limited to improve facilitation and reduce indiscriminate parking. Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Engineer Saleh Dunoma, who commissioned the car park said the facility was long overdue and...
