Tag Archives: COVID-19 response

AS the industry set for restart, stakeholders have said the campaign to remove middle seats is uneconomical to airlines, would make passengers pay way more and is totally unnecessary since aircraft come fitted with High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter which  sanitizes air in the cabin of aircraft. This is just as only six Nigerian airlines are said have passed the …

TWO hundred and fifty-three (253) Nigerian evacuees from the United Kingdom have landed at the Murtala Muhammed international Airport (MMIA) 48 hours after the256 Nigerians arrived the country from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is just as the same aircraft evacuated about 258 British Nationals from the country. The Nigerian evacuees arrived on a British Airways Boeing 747 flight …

PRESIDENT, Aviation Round Table (ART), Dr. Gabriel Olowo has said the proposed injection of N2 trillion to jump start the nation’s  economy post COVID-19 will not be enough for passenger airlines alone and has recommended a three(3)year grants, 5% interest rate loans, tax waivers and VAT exemptions among others to save the country. Dr. Olowo in a statement sent to …

HOUSE Committee on Aviation have said that with the number of wide-bodied aircraft in Nigeria owned by carriers like Air Peace and Azman Air it is sad that the country engages the services of foreign airlines to evacuate Nigerians abroad when the aforementioned have the capacity to do so. Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Nnolim Nnaji frowned at the engagement …

FEDERAL Government has announced that it would commence evacuation of no fewer than 4,000 Nigerians from about 75 countries around the globe beginning with 265  from the United Arab Emirates to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffery Onyeama who made this known  at the Presidential Task Force on …

NATIONAL Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has, in its low key May 1, 2020 is our Workers Day celebration called for reflection among the union members asking what portends their future as the physical workspace becomes virtual due to the change in the dynamics of human adaptation. National President of NUATE, Comrade Ben Nnabue, who posed this question in …

ANOTHER batch of British citizens will be evacuated from Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos on Friday 1 and Tuesday 5 May following yesterday’s evacuation of 185 Britons from Nigeria via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja yesterday Tuesday 28 April, 2020. This evacuation flight, a British Airways Boeing 747 Flight, BA9154 with Registration number G-CIVO arrived NAIA at …

RECTOR/Chief Executive Officer of International Aviation College (IAC) Ilorin, Engr. Benedict Adeyileka has said that the college management and Governing Council has decided to implement between 10-42% pay cut for all members of staff across the entire organization for the month of April 2020. This pay cut according to him, does not affect staff on or below N80, 000.00 per …

ETHIOPIAN Airlines completed the flight and delivery of the second round shipments of life saving medical supplies to fight COVID-19 donated by Jack Ma to all African countries. Ethiopian Airlines expresses its complements and the highest appreciation to the Jack Ma Foundation, our Prime Minister H.E. Dr. Abiy Ahmed, WFP and the African CDC for giving us the opportunity to …

AVIATION unions in unison have revealed plans to mobilize the entire aviation community against the Rivers State Government and its Governor, Nyeesom Wike unless the state government backtracks on the alleged unlawful arrest of two pilots from Caverton Helicopters on essential duty on April 7, 2020. The unions are also demanding a public apology to the personnel – pilots and …