The business traveller & hospitality

Sade Williams/Business a.m. A consumer protection portal by the Nigeria Civil Aviation (NCAA) designed to solve real-time passenger complaints against airlines has taken further steps in its preparation for launch. The soon-to-be-launched portal recently saw the NCAA complete a training schedule for its consumer protection officers (CPOs) and airlines’ staff representatives on how to use […]

Business a.m., with wire reports When Air Peace eventually starts its Lagos-New York-Lagos operations this year as planned, it would be joining an exclusive club of just six carriers with direct flights between Africa and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to an analytical report focusing on the current six operators in Simple Flying […]

Azman Air’s two-seat on an A340-600 aircraft acquired from Virgin Atlantic, which it planned international flights with to Dubai, Jeddah, and China, has a unique seating configuration with its two central business class seats that have no curtains separating economy and business classes, has raised interest about whether it is the most exclusive business class […]

Business a.m. The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has announced the suspension of its planned 800 percent increase in navigational charges, originally scheduled to take effect on September 1, 2024. The decision to suspend the increase was reportedly taken after the intervention of Festus Keyamo, the minister of aviation and aeronautical development, who instructed the […]

Business a.m.  Airbus, the Air France-KLM Group, energy firm Associated Energy Group, LLC, financial services providers BNP Paribas and Burnham Sterling, Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc., and Qantas Airways Limited, have collectively invested in a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) financing fund. The purpose of the fund is to stimulate the production of sustainable aviation fuel and […]

The Boeing 747 version of the Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) is the world’s largest private jet. With only a handful of examples worldwide, it’s a rare bird. The 747-8I (Intercontinental) is already the second-largest passenger jet, with a maximum capacity of over 600 passengers, after the Airbus A380. The private-jet examples of the 747-8 are […]

Charles Anosike, professor and director general/CEO, Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), with Sa’adatu Hassan Liman, professor and  vice chancellor, Nasarawa State University, during a courtesy call on the director general at NiMet headquarters in Abuja, recently Sade Williams/Business a.m. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and Nasarawa State University have resolved to strengthen the partnership between the […]

Sade Williams/Business a.m. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), in collaboration with Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU), has conducted a comprehensive system study and seminar with the theme, ‘Corruption is a Virus’ for staff of FAAN at Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport, Ibadan. The initiative which […]

Obiora Okonkwo, chairman, United Nigeria Airlines Sade Williams/Business a.m. Nigerian airlines are seeing their operations crippled by a multiplicity of at least 20 taxes that are paid on every ticket purchased by travellers as well as foreign exchange access regime that has produced scarcity leading to an astronomical devaluation of the local currency, the naira. […]