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Do you intend travelling by air? Checkout Arik Air’s Destinations…

Arik Air is West-Africa’s leading airline operating a domestic, regional and international flight network. They operate mainly from two hubs at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Arik Air’s head office is the Arik Air Aviation Center on the grounds of Murtala Muhammed International Airport …

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Dana Air Launches Show Your Loyalty Promo

Passengers of Dana Air are in for an exciting time as the airline unveils special fares ahead of Easter celebrations and a promo tagged, “Show Your Loyalty” which entails guests of the airline to display five of the airline’s boarding passes on Instagram and win a free ticket. According to …

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Toddler smuggled in hand luggage onto Air France flight from Istanbul to Paris

The height of desperation..read this: A female passenger on board Air France flight AF1891 heading from Istanbul to Paris on 7 March was found carrying a young child in a handbag. Halfway through the flight, cabin crew were alerted by a nearby passenger when a young child, believed to be …

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Flights resume at Abu Dhabi Airport

  Abu Dhabi International Airport resumed flight operations after a strong storm hit the capital. Passengers are advised to contact their respective airlines for an update on their flight schedule prior to heading to the airport, Tweeted ADAC at around 2.00 pm. The operations remained suspended for almost one hour …

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MH370 remains an ‘agonizing mystery’ two years after vanishing

By Angus Whitley (Bloomberg). Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said his government is committed to solving the “agonizing mystery” of Flight 370 as the country marks the second anniversary of the aircraft’s disappearance. Vessels looking for the Malaysia Airlines jet are due to finish scouring 120,000 square kilometers (46,330 square miles) of southern Indian Ocean …

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Local airlines to spend N560bn on overseas maintenance

By the end of this year, Nigerian airlines are expected to spend over N560 billion for the maintenance cost of over 350 aircraft that are expected to go for both ‘C and D checks, New Telegraph has learnt. And unless the Federal Government floats aircraft maintenance facilities, the country and …

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Lucky Passengers to See Total Solar Eclipse From Plane

If one man can change the world, then one man can certainly change a flight path. And that’s exactly what Joe Rao did. Rao, an associate astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York (where celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson works), is an eclipse chaser, …

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”World’s largest aircraft’ prepares for first flight

The “world’s largest aircraft”, a cross between an airship and an aeroplane, is only weeks away from its maiden flight, Sky News reported on Sunday. The Airlander 10 was originally developed for the US Army back in 2009, but re-imagined for commercial use when the project had been abandoned. Aviation …

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