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  Sade Williams/Business a.m. Air Peace management has denied claims by a passenger that it engaged in ticket racketeering and abandoned passengers at Owerri Airport on Sunday. The airline described the claim as not only false but also an outrageous claim. According to the airline,  “the passenger who made this spurious claim came late to […]

Sade Williams/Business a.m. The management of Arik Air has explained that its passengers were not deliberately left stranded at Port Harcourt airport recently, but that bad weather meant that the flight had to be cancelled. The airline said it was reacting to a recent video/story circulated by an online medium alleging that passengers were left […]

    Sade Williams/Business a.m. A redundancy payment plan being implemented by Aero Contractors since 2017 has so far covered 95 percent of workers, the airline’s management said in an explanatory statement on how it is settling the benefits of the affected workers. The airline said it paid at least 95 percent of the redundant […]

  Surge in capacity but load factors drop to 74%.     Rise in demand is seeing airlines across the African continent benefit as data released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show a 20.7 percent rise in passenger traffic this year compared to this time last year. Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Egyptair, Royal Air […]

Ahmed Umar Farouk, managing director, NAMA, By Ibn Umar Provision of safe and functional air navigation services is a big business in the global aviation industry. Managing a body responsible for carrying out this function requires a serious-minded and an astute administrator. Ahmed Umar Farouk, an engineer and the managing director of the Nigerian Airspace […]

Sade Williams/Business a.m. Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen (left), presenting the award, ‘Best Sustainable Airline Company’ of the year to Jide Bakare (right), director of safety, Arik Air Arik Air has added yet another feather to its cap after it was named ‘Best Sustainable Airline of the Year 2024’. The award was made to the airline by […]

     Sade Williams/Business a.m. Nigerian carrier bites more in global expansion Daily operation will see Norse Atlantic Airways deploy B787 Dreamliners under an AMCI deal     Air Peace, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier by fleet size, made a bold Nigerian presence at London Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom on Saturday with […]

Keyamo leads praises as Air Peace launches Lagos-London operations Alice Onyema (fifth from left), vice chairman, Air Peace; Allen Onyema (sixth from left), chairman, Air Peace; Festus Keyamo (ninth from left), minister of aviation and aerospace development; flanked by crew members during Air Peace’s inaugural Lagos-London flight ceremony marking the airline’s entry into the European […]

Sade Williams/Business a.m. Charles Anosike, a professor and the director general and chief executive officer of Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), and the permanent representative of Nigeria with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), says that effective early warning system, equipping farmers with the knowledge of weather patterns and seasonal forecasting could boost food security and ensure […]