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A 52-year-old Bulgarian man was arrested as he was about to board an airplane after he was overheard saying: “No one is going to survive”. Ivan Zlatev Manolov was arraigned before Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech this afternoon, charged with threatening people as well as with threatening two police officers. The …

Air France, hobbled by a strike involving more than a quarter of its pilots, said about 80 percent of its flights would operate on Sunday and Monday. Air France-KLM Group’s French arm will honor 83 percent of its scheduled long-haul flights and 86 percent of its domestic ones on Sunday, …

Med-View Airline has taken delivery of its Boeing 737-500 aircraft after undergoing a comprehensive check in Estonia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the aircraft was received by the airline’s Managing Director, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, on arrival at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal two (MMA2) in Lagos on …

Following recommendations by the Presidential Committee chaired by the Head of Service, Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, Federal Government has embarked on massive restructuring of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) that may be the beginning of a tsunami in the agency many acclaim is over-bloated. It has also been gathered …

The Civil Aviation ministry has come up with a host of proposed measures today that, if implemented, will empower passengers travelling by air. To begin with the ministry proposes cap cancellation charges not exceeding the basic fare. So next time you have to cancel your flight, don’t worry about the …

Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomed the publication of Interpretative Guidelines on Regulation 261/2004 by the European Commission which brings greater clarity to the European Union’s passenger rights regulation. This is an important stop-gap measure until critical reforms to EU 261/2004 are implemented. “A transparent and level …

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Command at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, has nabbed two Chinese nationals for allegedly attempting to smuggle 678 pieces of Elephant tusks and eight sacks of Pangolin weighing over 381 kilogrammes. These items according to Customs are prohibited on the …

Checks by THISDAY have revealed that some Nigerian airlines are unable to bring back their aircraft taken abroad for routine maintenance due to their inability to pay outrageous maintenance bills, which have tripled because of the low value of Naira. THISDAY learnt that some aircraft have been in different maintenance …

Today marks a major milestone in the drive to create a Northern Powerhouse, as the first ever direct, scheduled flight from anywhere outside of London to mainland China launches, from Manchester Airport. Also hailed as a significant moment for UK aviation, the Hainan Airlines service to Beijing takes off from …

  The Ethiopian Flight academy graduates 347 Aviation Professionals. See more photos from the ceremony below: