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Our health is in our hands and whether we stay on the ground or fly up in the air, there are certain precautions we can take to make our journeys more enjoyable.  Here are some nice to know Healthy tips for happy trips. On a flight, dont Sit tight Change …

London Stansted enjoyed another record breaking month as the UK’s fourth busiest airport welcomed over 2.1 million passengers in May 2016. Passenger numbers were up 4.6% on 2015 during the busiest May on record at the airport. Load factors – the average number of seats occupied on each flight – …

Tempers flared yesterday morning at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, as Medview Airline “suddenly” cancelled a scheduled flight to London. The passengers, in their numbers, frowned on the “unfriendly conduct” of the operator, alleging that they were not carried along. But for the intervention of men of the …

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 …

First I would say if I were a customer what would I want? I would like whatever Organisation I deal with to keep to it promises. If you promise professionalism make sure your staff delivers. If you promise prompt attention then make sure you put processes in place to meet …

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 …

Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has described the statement by Ravi Naik, a former Indian Chief Minister, on Nigerians as “condescending and unacceptable”. In a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Dabiri-Erewa said the call by Naik …

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 …