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Abuja – The House of Representatives on Thursday urged the Federal Government to grant Qatar Airways landing rights to operate at the Malam Aminu Kano International and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe International airports. It also urged the government to lift the suspension on the operations of the Emirates Airline to land …

I received a call yesterday from an intending Air France passenger who confirmed that some passengers who checked in online were requested to pay N3,000 naira each to get a printed copy of their boarding passes. According to the source, those who checked in online and were already on the …

A mild drama unfolded on Wednesday at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, when a middle – aged female passenger billed to travel with Etihad Airways died inside one of the toilets at the airport. Though details about the circumstances that led to her death …

Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to stop further hearing on a suit filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Minister of Aviation, Babalola Borishade and four others as prayed by the defendant’s counsel. Borishade, his former personal …

The former Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) pilot and the pioneer President of Captain DafiekoSama Flight Safety Foundation, Capt. Tito Augustine Omaghomi is dead. A statement signed by the Vice President, ‘The Sama Foundation’, Mr Dafe –Urhobo Sama stated that Capt Tito as he was popularly called died on Sunday, January …

The body of a dead person found in a Western Global Airlines cargo plane destined for Durban, South Africa on Sunday has been taken for a post-mortem, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed. Police also confirmed that the plane’s cabin crew was still in the country but refused to divulge …

A man who allegedly launched a mid-air attack on the crew of a flight from Dubai to London was restrained when a travelling police officer put him in a headlock. The passenger is said to have become violent during the flight, attacking three members of staff on the Emirates plane …

No one, it seems, is immune to the danger of laser beams aimed at commercial airplanes. Not even Pope Francis. In a statement released Wednesday, Alitalia said one of its crews plus those on “other aircraft” in the area “noticed a laser light from the ground” as the pontiff’s plane prepared …

For an impending new Nigerian airline to acquire Air Operators’ Certificate, AOC, from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, but, it also takes an average of seven years of epileptic operations for such a carrier to close shop. In Europe and America, most of their legacy carriers would in a …

Dana Air has announced a buy one get one free offer for couples flying together on its Lagos –Accra –Lagos route. Speaking on the new offer in a statement issued by the Media Manager, Dana Air, Mr. Kingsley Ezenwa said that the new offer was its valentine gift to its guests …