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Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and the largest African airline, is pleased to announce that it has won the African Aviation ‘African Airline of the Year’ Award for 2016 during the 25th Anniversary African Aviation Air Finance Africa Conference & Exhibition and African Aviation Summit held on May 11, 2016 …

On 21 May 1946, KLM operated its first flight to what is now John F. Kennedy Airport in New York (JFK). After the Second World War, KLM was the first European airline to initiate service between Europe and America. To mark this auspicious occasion, passengers flying from Amsterdam to New …

The Federal Government in Nigeria has again reaffirmed its determination to develop critical infrastructure in the aviation industry that will guarantee the safety of all air travellers. Addressing aviation players on the occasion of the 2016 Aviation Day in Abuja on Monday, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport, …

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, mandated it’s Committee on Aviation to investigate activities of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The committee is to ascertain the extent to which the three organisations complied with their responsibilities …

The Nigeria Civil Aviation School of Technology Zaria, Cabin Crew Course 30 A and B Trainees were recently taken on Familiarisation Tour of MMA2 in Lagos  See more Photos of the Enthusiastic trainees below:

Come July, carnival fever will grip Accra with the 3rd Ghana Carnival 2016. The city’s streets will be awash with revellers who will give a new meaning to ecstatic excitement and frenzy in the spirit of jamboree and merrymaking. With what promises to be a grand celebration of the country’s culture …

When Annette Long was a child, she dreamed of becoming a flight attendant. It took industry-wide layoffs following September 11 to finally realize that dream. Before becoming a flight attendant in 2003 for a regional airline, Long worked in sales as a business manager for a cruise line. Like many …

A passenger on Kuwait Airways was deplaned on Saturday for “screaming his head off” in a threatening manner. In a press statement, the company said it had re-inspected the luggage of all passengers on flight 561 bound for Jordanian capital Amman, after a rowdy passenger disrupted flight operations. According to local news …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 38 year-old mother of two children, Obudike Faith Ndidiamaka with 1.155kgs of cannabis hidden in melon at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos. According to NDLEA, she was arrested by anti-narcotic officers during outward screening of …

Greece had to scramble fighter jets to intercept a passenger plane that entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) without identifying itself, according to reports in local media. The plane, reportedly a Delta airliner flying from France to Kuwait, entered the Athens FIR at 7.10 p.m. on Thursday. Reports said …