Nigerians embrace Air Peace with optimism as West Africa’s largest airline gets set for Int’l operations
Sade Williams
March 27, 2019
By Sade Williams With more than 26 aircraft in its fleet, Air Peace is miles away, West Africa’s biggest carrier. But its operations, which it began a few years ago, have always been in Nigeria. That will change next month (April, 2019) when it takes to the skies and, instead of keeping to the […]
Air Peace wins best domestic airline at Jumia’s Nigeria Travel Awards
Sade WilliamsMarch 18, 2019
By Sade Williams/TravelPort Air Peace has again been chosen as Nigeria’s best airline, garnering a whopping 44.7 percent of the total votes cast in the domestic airlines category of the third edition of the Nigeria Travel Awards organised by Jumia Travel in Lagos. The airline beat five other domestic carriers to clinch the […]
FAAN in strategic move to diversify revenue base from aeronautical sources
Chris IkosaMarch 18, 2019
By Sade Williams/TravelPort The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is planning to improve its revenue generation by developing and diversifying its non-aeronautical sources and services, like its counterparts are diversifying from aeronautical source in other countries. In order to actualize this move, it has set up a committee to map out plans […]
Air Peace clears air on its yet-to-be-delivered B737 MAX 8 aircraft order
Sade WilliamsMarch 18, 2019
By Sade Williams/TravelPort The management of Air Peace Airline, in the wake of the safety concerns surrounding Boeing’s aircraft B737 MAX 8, two of which have crashed within minutes of take off in the last five months, came out to clarify their position on their order of a number of the model from the […]
More Dana Air flights now head to Abuja on low fares
Sade WilliamsMarch 18, 2019
By Sade Williams/TravelPort Dana Air said it has introduced more flights options from Lagos to Abuja and Abuja to Lagos with low fares. Kingsley Ezenwa, the airline’s manager, media and communications, in a statement said, starting from today. 18th March 2019, the airline will operate additional flights from Lagos to Abuja at 6.48am, 10.08am, […]
Delta whets passengers’ appetite with fresh springtime meals onboard Lagos-US flights
Sade WilliamsMarch 18, 2019
By Sade Williams/TravelPort As part of Delta’s continued investment in the customer experience, the airline has committed to seasonal refreshes for its onboard menus. This means that even the most frequent of travellers has something new to look forward to in-flight, in addition to familiar favourites that customers have come to know and love. […]
Lack of regulation, transparency flagged as NCAA, travel agencies disagree
Sade Williams/TravelPortMarch 18, 2019
By Sade Williams/TravelPort NANTA president, Medview boss call for local content laws, alliance among agencies A lack of local regulation of travel agency business in the country and transparency on the part of operators may be at the heart of a disagreement between the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and agencies which came […]
Sirika talks up achievements under Buhari
Sade WilliamsFebruary 28, 2019
HADI SIRIKA, minister of state (Aviation), in this interview, takes a look at how the Nigerian aviation industry has fared in almost four years of President Muhammadu Buhari. He said that the construction and commissioning of new terminals, acquisition of navigational aids and the recent payment of gratuities and pensions of the former national carrier, […]
Landover Business School produces 2018 IATA best performer in Nigeria
Sade WilliamsFebruary 28, 2019
By Sade Williams Landover Aviation Business School (LABS), a leading aviation training school in West Africa, has produced the student with the best performance in Nigeria in the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Foundation in Travel and Tourism with Amadeus course in the December 2018 diet. Adeola Alade, a graduate of LABS made a […]
SAHCO gets ground handling brief at new Bayelsa international airport, following MoU signing
Sade WilliamsFebruary 28, 2019
By Sade Williams Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) has received the brief to take care of ground handling operations at the newly commissioned Bayelsa State international airport following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between SAHCO and the Bayelsa State Government. SAHCO is a rival to the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) in the […]