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The scarcity of aviation fuel affecting the aviation industry grew worse on Monday as many air travellers across the country endured varying degrees of hardship due to flight cancellations. From airport terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Warri, Owerri, Port Harcourt, Asaba and in the North, our correspondent gathered that virtually …

Abuja—The Federal Government yesterday dropped hints of closing down Abuja airport as a precautionary measure because of the bad state of the runway. The Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, who dropped the hint at the 2016 Aviation Stakeholders Summit in Abuja, also said the government would concession the …

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said that the new Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (NCARs) promulgated in December, 2015, will take effect from July 1, 2016. The General Manager Public Relations, NCAA, Mr Sam Adurogboye, who made this known in an online statement made available to journalists, explained that …

Mumbai: One hundred and sixty-three passengers on a Mumbai-bound Lufthansa flight from the German city of Munich had a miraculous escape here after four tyres of the plane were damaged while landing. In an official statement, the German national carrier said, “On May 13, at 10:50 PM local time, four …

Captain Joan Azuka Obasi is a female Arik Air pilot. She was recently recognized by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with inclusion in the prestigious FAA Airmen Certification Database. The database, which appears on the agency’s website at www.faa.gov, names Obasi and other certified pilots who have met or exceeded …

1 year after: In memory of  late Adio-Somoye, husband of Morenike Adetimirin Adio-Somoye formerly of Virgin Nigeria  In memory of her late husband, Morenike took to facebook today and wrote: “Hmm.. Olatokunbo Adisa Mi, it’s 1 yr already. I have been playing back those few hours before your departure to …

ROSWELL, N.M. –American Airlines Flight 9780 arrives from Dallas/Fort Worth and taxis past a line of other MD-80 passenger jets as the morning sun rises over the New Mexico desert on a chilly morning this past winter. But as the jet comes to a stop, there’s no boarding gate or …

A BRITISH Airways plane was diverted after a member of airline staff tried to kill himself at 38,000ft. The cabin crew worker is understood to have slit his wrists in a cabin toilet on BA Flight 282 from Los Angeles to London. There was horror on board the giant Airbus …

Meet our Aviator of the day: Ayub Kambinda. Who is Ayub Kambinda? “A fun person to be around. Very caring, willing to help anyone at any time though I do not like to be taken advantage of. Straight forward and systematic person. Ayub works hard and plays harder. What you …

Two Canadian airlines are ranked below average in a new North American airline satisfaction study. The study, released Wednesday by American global market research firm J.D. Power, ranked Air Canada second to last among five airlines included in the “traditional carrier ranking,” while Alaska Airlines was ranked first. WestJet, meanwhile, …