Ethiopian Airlines on Saturday became the first carrier to resume flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliners that have been grounded worldwide for the past three months due to battery problems. The Ethiopian carrier flew one of the next-generation aircraft from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, a day before All Nippon Airlines (ANA), which has the world’s largest [...]
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Dana Air recommenced Port Harcourt flights on Monday, expanding its operations for the first time beyond Lagos – Abuja route since the airline returned into the skies on 4 January. The decision to recommence flight operations on Lagos – Port Harcourt and Abuja – Port Harcourt routes was influenced by frequent passengers’ [...]
German airline Lufthansa said Monday it has cancelled most of its domestic, European and long-haul flights at six German airports due to strike action by ground personnel and some cabin crew. Out of nearly 1,800 planned flights on Monday, “we will operate 20 short and medium-range flights and 12 long-distance services,” a spokesman told AFP. [...]
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s aviation regulatory body has given foreign airlines operating in the country two weeks to comply with some regulations or face sanctions, a spokesman said on Tuesday. Mr. Fan Ndubuoke, General Manager, Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, quoted the Acting Director General of the agency, Joyce Daniel Nkemakolam, [...]
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Nigeria’s oil rich Rivers state has denied allegations that his government and the office of the National Security Adviser inflated by more than 100 per cent the cost of two BELL 412 EP aerial surveillance helicopters. The Daily Trust, quoting an aviation expert had queried the purchase, saying [...]
A Nigerian ground handling company on Tuesday unveiled newly acquired state-of-the-art equipment suitable in handling wide body aircraft and heavy cargo containers, as Nigeria tries to catch up with the modern world in aviation. “It is the latest high loading equipment in the whole world,” said Mr. Olu Owolabi, Managing Director of Skyway Aviation Handling [...]
An Ethiopian Federal High Court sitting in Addis Ababa has given Nigeria’s struggling Chanchangi Airlines (CAL) a one-month ultimatum to settle the maintenance fee it was owing. The court, while ruling on Monday, thus fixed May 8 to rule on the civil suit against the airlines over the unsettled maintenance fee. The Ethiopian Airlines (ET) [...]
