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As domestic airlines’ capacity continue to overwhelm existing infrastructure leading to abysmal passenger facilitation, Chairman West Link Airline, Captain Ibrahim Mshelia has tasked the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN) to extend operation time at the Lagos Airport to midnight and open up the old Abuja International Airport Terminal for domestic use. According to him, these are some quick …

SECURITY around the nation’s airports will be heightened following an alert from the ministry of aviation over planned attacks on airports across the country including Kaduna, Maiduguri, Sokoto, Kano, Abuja, and Lagos. A memo dated April 9, 2021 signed by Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) deputy general manager of administration and logistics, S.M. Mamman and addressed to airport chiefs …

Middle seat removal debate still on as stakeholders canvass more investment in sector AVIATION players, industry regulators, service providers this morning gathered virtually to discuss the  way forward for the sector following the numerous changes that must have to take place in the post Covid-19 new normal era especially with regards safety and protection of passengers as the sub-sector is …

EVACUATION of European Union nationals is currently ongoing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos as the European continent has deployed two aircraft to ferry back 637 nationals from Nigeria amid COVID-19 fears. No fewer than 399 Europeans have earlier already been evacuated with an Air France Boeing 777-300ER with registration AF986 from the MMIA at 1:56pm; the flight …

NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revealed that it has been working with the Federal Ministry of Health, and other relevant stakeholders in the aviation industry to ensure all travellers coming into the country are adequately screened while causing minimum disruption to facilitation of travel. The regulatory agency said that it is doing this in line with the guidelines of …

MANAGING Director, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN), Captain Rabiu Yadudu has said more needs to be done to stem the scourge of wildlife hazard strikes to ensure aviation safety and reduce financial burdens. This is just as he stated that FAAN is doing a lot to ensure the dispersals of birds around the airports including discovering and removing …

By Simon Tumba FOR a long time aviation stakeholders have been expressing concern over the stagnant or retarding predicament of this massive sector, considering our natural, human and economic potentials. Perhaps based on these factors, including the $1.3 billion annually repatriated by foreign airlines, Senator Hadi Sirika put out a plan over four years ago to set up a national …

AFRICAN airlines including Royal Air Maroc, Egypt Air and some others have said to have been urged to make improve their operational efficiency’s to cope with the overwhelming travel requirements of passengers who carry excessive luggage. Airline have also been urged to use wide-bodied aircraft to cope to with passengers upsurge during  this period in a bid to forestall rancor …

NO fewer than 30 electronic information platforms have been deployed to airports around the nation to ensure continuous enlightenment of air travellers about their rights and their responsibilities. Nigerianflightdeck learnt that this was done through efforts of the Consumer Protection Department (CPD) of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA)  to help reduce to the minimum, incidents of fracas around …