The business traveller & hospitality

By Samson Echenim, with agency report Embattled planemaker, Boeing has released over 100 pages of internal communications about the 737 MAX that the airplane manufacturer is calling “completely unacceptable.” According to The Washington Post, the documents include conversations between Boeing technical pilots and developers working on the MAX simulators that show them mocking Federal Aviation […]

By Samson Echenim   Nigerians are not only the most travelled people on earth, but they are also one with the largest migrant rate. While we do not encourage you leave your motherland, we understand that citizens in every country do change residential and job locations across countries. So, if you are one of several […]

By Samson Echenim   Air Peace, West Africa’s largest airline, has set the tone for the aviation sector in 2020 as it recently received its third International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification. This development is coming on the heels of the airline’s announcement of flight operations into Ibadan from Abuja, Kano and […]

By Samson Echenim   Every year, the industry sets a series of expectations based on the results of the previous six to twelve months. Just weeks away from 2020, there’s a series of trends that loom in the horizon and have served as talking points for leaders in conferences and specialised media outlets throughout 2019. […]

By Samson Echenim   Dubai is a city of hotels. The city is the Middle East’s commercial hub and United Arab Emirate’s business capital, receiving millions of business travellers every week. Holiday makers have also found love in the city because of the double advantage of offering both opportunities for business and leisure. Dubai therefore, […]

By Samson Echenim   Airlines in Nigeria and other African countries are projected to lose a whopping $200 million in 2020, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecast for the year 2020, which was released on Thursday. The gloomy outlook, for the second year on the bounce, is not unconnected with the state […]

By Samson Echenim   Turkish Airline, as the name of an airline operating into Nigeria, is one that quickly comes to mind as “the missing baggage airline”; and it should not surprise anyone. The airline is known for arriving Nigerian airports without passengers’ baggage and the airline does not seem to care. At least, the […]

By Samson Echenim   Most airlines and hotels in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre are not doing promo sales despite the yuletide, checks by Traveller & Hospitality have revealed.   All the airlines that responded to our inquiries on yuletide promo answered in the negative, while hotels remain unwilling for planned discount rates for a night […]