Category: TRAVEL & AVIATION

Virgin Atlantic has announced that it has added five additional services from September 1, 2020 onwards. The airline said as countries around the world start to relax travel restrictions, Virgin Atlantic will resume flying from London Heathrow to Delhi, Tel Aviv, Atlanta, Mumbai and Lagos (Nigeria) throughout September, with additional routes being added throughout 2020 followed by a further, gradual recovery through 2021 in line with customer demand. Juha Jarvinen, the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Virgin Atlantic said, “We’re continually reviewing our network and as countries begin to open…

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Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s oldest carrier, has announced that it will begin shuttle services from Kaduna to Abuja in response to the yearnings of its customers, as travelers from the Northern state’s capital have shunned travelling by road due to potential security threats. The shuttle services according to the airline owned by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) would commence from Tuesday, September 1, 2020. The airline said, providing the shuttle has become necessary as the business is picking up after the ravaging coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, necessitating the increasing movement…

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Ethiopian Airlines Group, which is today the Largest Aviation Group in Africa, has completed a new passenger terminal at its hub in Addis Ababa Bole International Airport with emphasis on Bio Security and Bio Safety measures. The new terminal has check-in hall with sixty check-in counters, thirty self-check-in kiosks, ten self-bag drop/SBD/, sixteen immigration counters with more e-gate provisions, sixteen central security screening areas for departing passengers are the new faces of the airport. In addition, it has three contact gates for wide body aircraft along with ten remote contact…

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Nigeria’s Aviation Minister Senator Hadi Sirika is in Enugu State ahead of the planned reopening of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu on Sunday 30th August 2020. The minister we gather is in Enugu along with his officials and aides. According to Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation, James Odaudu, Sirika is in the state to monitor the finishing touches being done by the contractors that are handling the runway reconstruction and installation of facilities at the airport. It is also to ensure that nothing stands in the way…

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As part of the ravaging effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on businesses around the globe, American Airlines said on Tuesday it will lay off 19,000 workers on October 1, 2020. This is in addition to thousands more who left the company or agreed to voluntary furloughs, unless Congress offers more aid. “Approximately 19,000 of our team members will be involuntarily furloughed or separated from the company on October 1,” American said in a regulatory filing, explaining the cuts are needed because flights have not recovered amid the coronavirus pandemic. However,…

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Switzerland could be added to the UK’s quarantine travel list as soon as this weekend after a surge in coronavirus cases as Tory MPs demand the Government back airport testing to reduce the 14-day self-isolation period. Case numbers in Switzerland now stand at 20.7 per 100,000 people – above the Government’s threshold of 20 per 100,000 at which countries are added to the ‘red list’. As a result, it is viewed as almost a certainty that all non-essential travel to the country from the UK will be banned in the…

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Following the gradual easing of the global travel restrictions that was occasioned by the ravaging coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Nigeria’s Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika has said Nigeria will enforce the principle of reciprocity in granting permission to airlines to resume operations in the country. Sirika made the disclosure on Thursday. He had in earlier communication to the nation hinted that Nigeria’s airspace will be opened to international flight operations from August 29, 2020. Already, Nigeria weeks back commenced domestic flight operations across the country. What it means is that only airlines…

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Ahead of the announcement by Nigeria’s Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika that August 25, 2020 remains the last day for any Coronavirus (COVID-19-related evacuation flights in and out of the country, Ethiopian Airlines has also declared that it will be operating  its last evacuation flight out of Nigeria on August 21, 2020. The management of the airline also hinted that the airline would resume regular operations when Nigeria opens its international airspace to flights. Speaking for Ethiopian Airline, Tilahun Tadese said: ‘The Nigerian Government and the American Governments have relied on…

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Ethiopian Airline one of the airlines that frequent Nigeria The Federal Government on Monday August 17 announced that international flights will resume on August 29, 2020, in Nigeria after being suspended as a result of the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Recall that the pandemic, which is ravaging the global community forced businesses across the globe to shut down and one of the worst hit sectors is the aviation industry because movements across countries were restricted. As a result, all evacuation flights, which were introduced in the country in…

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As Nigeria’s airports begin to reopen gradually for flight operations, after the lockdown occasioned by the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has called passengers to desist from giving money and to report any official from any agency that requests money under any guise. In a statement issued by the spokesperson of the authority, Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, FAAN informed passengers and other airport users that there was no aspect of its services at the airports that was being paid for by cash. Yakubu said, “Arriving passengers…

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