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A Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 737-800, registration LN-DYA performing flight D8-5360 from Tenerife South,CI (Spain) to Berlin Schoenefeld (Germany), was accelerating for takeoff from Tenerife’s runway 08 when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed and came to a stop near the end of the runway with both right main …

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A panicked airport employee immediately reported him as an “unauthorised person” in the area and the plane, which was set to fly 140 passengers, was quickly marked as a security risk. Police and bomb squad technicians raced to the scene while the plane was towed away from its gate as …

As the federal government works on establishing a national carrier, indications have emerged that the country’s largest carrier, Arik Air, will be disposable to becoming the needed national carrier. The managing director of the airline, Mr Chris Ndulue, told LEADERSHIP that the airline is only awaiting an official declaration naming …

Two trade unions in the aviation sector have faulted the recent laying off of Nigerian cabin crew by Virgin Atlantic Airline management. The unions, the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, and the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, said this in a statement issued in …

  Cell Phones on Planes: Why Not? Has this happened to you? You’re on a plane, prepping for the big meeting on your laptop, and a problem arises. You need an answer, fast. So you reach into your pocket, grab your cell … and it hits you: no calls allowed. …

This is not Peculiar to Nigeria After All….Read this: BOSTON — A professional dancer who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombing says American Airlines lost her luggage, which included her prosthetic leg. Adrianne Haslet-Davis tweeted Thursday night: “u lost my luggage with over $250k of leg & dance parts.” …

After bigots alerted Southwest Airlines ground crew that there were two people speaking Arabic in the boarding area, the airline’s employees opted to harass a Palestinian-American pizza-parlor owner and his friend who were returning to Philadelphia from Chicago. The gate agent refused to let the men board because of the …

Air Ambulance Service Partners Commercial Airline in Nigeria. A recent survey conducted by Ngozi Okonji-Iweala (NOI) polls revealed that only 20 per cent of Nigerians have access to health insurance and only a tiny fraction of that percentage have access to medical air transport or air ambulance services. However, the …

Nigerian cabin crew members of the Virgin Atlantic Airways have called on the Federal Government  to come to their aid over alleged racial bias and planned sack by the foreign airline. The cabin crew members through their lawyer, Chief Felix Fagbohungbe, SAN, wrote a letter protesting the planned termination of …