Delta is celebrating 25 years of service to the cities of Milan and Rome. The inaugural nonstop flights touched down from New York on Nov. 1, 1991. Since then the airline, which has grown its network between Italy and North America, has carried over 13.5 million passengers between Italy and …
Read More »Qatar Airways Wins Best Customer Experience At The Customer Show Awards
Qatar Airways has been named Best Customer Experience at the Customer Show Awards 2016 hosted by Terrapinn, at a ceremony that was held in Dubai on Tuesday 15th November 2016. Terrapinn operates from a network of offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, Dubai and Johannesburg. Their conferences are industry …
Read More »WATCH: Emirates plane’s dramatic landing-Khaleejtimes
The world’s largest passenger plane was almost forced to land sideways as it was battered by a storm. According to Daily Mail, the Emirates Airbus A380 was almost forced to land sideways and a Swiss International Air Lines pilot had to abort landing as they arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. …
Read More »Disasters loom at airports over obsolete traffic tools
New equipment waste away in NAMA store Air traffic controllers in the country are currently finding it difficult using some of the outdated navigational aids at airports nationwide. The equipment, some of which were installed in the 1980s, have either completely gone bad or are malfunctioning at the Murtala Muhammed …
Read More »Aviation minister allays fear over airports’ concession
Minister of State for Aviation, Mr. Hadi Abubakar Sirika, has allayed fear that on-going moves to concession four airports would be injurious to the country. Sirika, who appeared before House of Representatives Committee on Aviation led by Mrs. Nkiruka Onyejiocha, also faulted the notion that there was a mass retrenchment …
Read More »Boeing Communications Satellite to Expand Broadband Services in Africa
The customer, Cayman Islands-based Global IP, will use the satellite to deliver streaming media, digital broadcast and other communications services to Sub-Saharan Africa. With a coverage area encompassing 35 countries and 750 million people, GiSAT will deliver higher data rates at lower costs than previous satellites serving this part of …
Read More »Sirika Assures Aero Workers Of Government’s Intervention
…To Meet AMCON, Aero Management The Federal Government through the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika has assured workers of embattled Aero Contractors that none of them would lose their jobs as result of the suspension of flights by the airline. He also promised protesting workers that the …
Read More »Blackout At Murtala Muhammed Int’l Airport As Airlines Use Torchlights To Profile, Board Passengers
A power outage has left the entire Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos in darkness since Saturday evening. This has forced departing and arriving passengers to board and disembark aircraft with torchlights. A SaharaReporters correspondent who was at the airport till 10pm on Saturday observed that all the wings of the airport, …
Read More »Southwest Airlines’ pilots and mechanics unions call for ouster of CEO Gary Kelly
Leaders of Southwest Airlines’ pilots and mechanics unions have called for the ouster of the Dallas-based company’s CEO, Gary Kelly, and chief operating officer Mike Van de Ven in a vote of no confidence, the unions said Monday. “As tenured employees and frontline leaders of this company, we can no …
Read More »Istanbul airport attackers ‘Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz’
The three men who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport were all from parts of the former USSR, Turkish sources say. One is said to be from Russia’s North Caucasus region and the others from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Turkey believes so-called Islamic State (IS) was behind the …
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