Tag: Arik Air
Nigerian senate wants Arik Air as national carrier
The Senate Committee on Aviation on Wednesday recommended that Arik Air be allowed to serve as Nigeria’s national carrier, a…
Arik Air Carries 10m Passengers
Arik Air said on Tuesday it has now carried 10 million passengers since 2006 when the airline began operation. “The…
Nigerian Airlines In Emergency Landing
Nigeria’s aviation industry seems to be going through turbulence and all its four major airlines appear to be heading for…
DANA Awaits Notification From FG
A day after Nigeria’s Federal Government lifted the suspension of Dana Air, the airline has not been notified, P.M.NEWS learnt…
Arik Air, Lufthansa Technik seal partnership
Simon Ateba Arik Air and world renowned aircraft maintenance service provider, Lufthansa Technik of Germany, have sealed a new partnership…
Arik Air Begins Nigeria-Cameroon Flights
Arik Air has announced that it will begin scheduled commercial flights between Lagos, southwest Nigeria, and Cameroon’s most populous city…
Arik Air Blames FAAN For Accident
Simon Ateba The obsolete apron markings at the Jos airport made an Arik plane to brush the wing of a…
Arik aborts flight after collision with Hercules
The Nigeria Air Force said that an Arik Airline Boeing 737-700 with registration No 5NMJI on Saturday brushed the wing…
Arik Air Winter Schedule For Lagos-New York Route
Simon Ateba Arik Air today said it has introduced a new schedule for its Lagos-New York, JFK service. The airline…
Passenger Steals On Arik Flight
A business class, on any airline, is reserved for wealthy and decent people, but a passenger on Arik Air flight…
Chaos At Airports As Fuel Scarcity Paralyses Flights
Thousands of exasperated passengers waited for hours yesterday at the country’s airports to board planes as aviation fuel scarcity paralysed…
Diplomatic Row: South Africa Begs Nigeria
South Africa on Thursday apologised for blocking 125 Nigerians from the country and unveiled new immigration procedures aimed at ending…
South Africa Begs Nigeria over Visa Row
South Africa on Thursday apologised for blocking 125 Nigerians from the country and unveiled new immigration procedures aimed at ending…
Arik Air blows hot and cold over South Africa
Nigeria’s Arik Air, Nigeria’s biggest airline, blew hot and cold within a spate of 24 hours over whether it should…
UK Jails Arik Air Stewardess for Cocaine Smuggling
An air stewardess who was caught trying to smuggle a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine into the…
Arik Air: Senate Backs Ultimatum Against BA
The Senate Committee on Aviation says it supports the 9 November deadline given by the Ministry of Aviation to British…
Arik Carries 8m Passengers, Acquires 23 Planes
Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air, has disclosed that in five years, it has flown eight million passengers and acquired 23…
Arik Air Plane Seized Over Debt
The financial crisis convulsing Arik Air, Nigeria’s biggest airline, is worsening by the day with the seizure of another of…
Arik Plane Still Grounded In Senegal Six Days After
The financial crisis steamrolling  Arik Air has spread to Senegal with one of its planes still grounded in the West…
Arik Air Denies N2b Debt
Arik Air, Nigeria’s largest airline, has denied owing the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, over N2 billion debt as alleged…
Air Arik Gets Ultimatum To Pay N2b Debt
The newly appointed Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Ada Oduah, has given Arik Air, thirty days ultimatum to pay off…
Ajimobi Promises Cheap Houses For All
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of 0yo State today pledged his administration’s determination to alleviate the suffering of the masses through the…
Air Travellers Must Be Protected
The embarrassing and unfair treatment Nigerian passengers go through at the country’s airports must be jettisoned. Daily, flights are delayed…
Oil Marketers, Airlines Set For Showdown
Struggling Nigerian airlines and oil marketers who supply them aviation fuel known as Jet-A1, may be bracing up for a…
Oil Marketers, Airlines Set For Showdown
Struggling Nigerian airlines and oil marketers who supply them aviation fuel known as Jet-A1, may be bracing up for a…
Bird Strike: NCAA Summons Arik Air
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, will summon the management of Arik Air after one of their pilots flew a…
We Saw Hell, Says Arik Air Passenger
A passenger with Arik Air flight W3 596 who sat by the engine side of the aircraft when the plane…
Bomb: Arik Stops Lagos-Bound Flight
There was palpable fear at the Port Harcourt International Airport this morning when the captain of a local airline, Arik…
NCAA Certifies Air Nigeria
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has reissued an Air Operator’s Certificate, AOC, to Air Nigeria to continue with passenger…
Corpse Found In Arik Aircraft
A corpse was allegedly discovered in an Arik aircraft last night, sources told P.M.NEWS today. Our sources said that the…