Category: TRAVEL & AVIATION

Chairman of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema The Management of Air Peace and the leadership of National Association of Airline Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) have toed the line of peaceful resolution under the auspices of the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika as the airline has agreed to recall the sacked pilots. Sirika hosted an intervention meeting to resolve the recent sack of pilots in the airline. About 70 of the pilots were recently sacked by Air Peace following the hardship occasioned by the ravaging coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Airlines were…

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In what appeared like following the sad global trend in aviation ector, Bristow Helicopters has, amid protest by aviation union, sacked over 100 pilots and engineers. And just like Air Peace Airline, which recently sacked 70 of their pilots, the management of Bristow also blamed the sack on the rampaging Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has crippled business and downturn in oil and gas business. As a result of the sack action, the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), had since Monday, began industrial action at the company over…

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As a way of cushioning the effect of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on its finances, the management of Air Peace airlines has announced the sack of over 70 pilots cutting across its fleet types. The airline said the decision became painful, but rightful in the face of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operations and financial health. The airline said the job cuts for pilots among it over 3000 workers became imperative because it could not afford to toe the path of being unable to continue to…

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By Our Correspondent As a follow-up to the partial ease of the lockdown, which was occasioned by the rampaging Coronavirus (COVID-19), the management of Arik Air on Monday announced resumption of flight operations to Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano State as well as Yola Airport in Adamawa State. The resumption takes effect on Tuesday July 28, 2020. According to the airline, both services, will originate from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with connections to and from Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. Arik Air will be operating separate flights…

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The management of Ibom Air has announced that it has set its sights on Calabar, the Cross River capital and would commence daily Lagos -Calabar operations to Calabar from Monday July 20, 2020. The airline in a statement said,” With great excitement, we announce Ibom Air’s newest destination, the Paradise. Beginning from Monday the 20th of July 2020, Ibom Air will fly from Lagos and Abuja to, and from Calabar daily, bringing our trademark schedule reliability, on-time departures and superior service to our customers on this route!” “At Ibom Air,…

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Air Peace at the weekend dispatched two B777 aircraft, 5N-BWI and 5N-BVE, to Malaysia and India, airlifting citizens of both countries and Singaporeans from Nigeria and returned to the country with over 300 Nigerians from different countries in Asia. The evacuees airlifted from Nigeria include about 250 Indians in one of the many evacuation flights done by Air peace to the world’s second most populated country. The airline said both flights returned safely to Abuja and Lagos on Saturday night, evacuating over 300 stranded Nigerians from Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia…

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By Our Correspondent Dana Air has announced the introduction of WhatsApp Booking in line with the social/ physical distancing measures of the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19). The airline said they resorted to that as a way of creating ease of booking, payment and inquiries for its patrons. They said the WhatsApp booking, payment platform, which is the first of its kind in Nigeria, will serve as an additional platform for booking, inquiries, reservation and payment apart from the already established website of the airline, the Dana Air Mobile App and the…

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File Photograph of Aero CEO Capt. Ado Sanusi (left) and Aminu Ismail, Executive Director of AMCON sharing a point of interest With the resumption of domestic flights operations in Nigeria after months of disruption occasioned by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown, Aero Contractors has said that it scheduled to start full flight operation on July 9, 2020. The airline, which is the oldest carrier is managed by Captain Ado Sanusi as Chief Executive Officer under the auspices of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) The airline said that it chose…

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Arik Air has announced the resumption of domestic flights from Wednesday, July 8, 2020 following Federal Government’s decision to re-open Lagos and Abuja airports for flight operations. This was contained in a press release issued on July 5, 2020 by Mr Adebanji Ola the image maker of Arik. The airline said it will be operate three daily flights from Lagos to Abuja in the first phase of the restart while Port Harcourt will be added to the schedule from Saturday, July 11, 2020 when the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa…

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