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  Surprisingly, not much is heard about the Helicopter Companies in the aviation industry in Nigeria. Unknown to watchers, the helicopter sector is another thriving business in aviation: chartering of helicopters. Encomium weekly of 2014, reliably gathered that there are top five chartered helicopter operators in Nigeria; Caverton Helicopters, OAS Helicopters, …

  The worst airline in the world flies regularly to only four or five destinations, departing from the despotic nation of North Korea. Air Koryo, the state-run Korean airline, rates as the only 1-star carrier listed on an airline-review site created by the flight consultancy firm SkyTrax. Much-maligned airlines like …

ASKY Airlines is recruiting Cabin Crew I. Position Cabin Crew II. Requirement 1- Qualified Professional – Maximum 30 years of age – Cabin Crew license issued by civil aviation authority – Senior Secondary School diploma – Be able to swim (50 meters in 2 mn or less) – Good Heath …

Foreign exchange risk is now a major component of airfares on Nigerian routes, the country managers of top foreign airlines have revealed. Investigation by our correspondent revealed that the airlines operating on international routes in the country had increased airfares by as much as 100 per cent as a result …

Technically Incorrect: An Ivy League expert in search theory says the math he was writing may have been mistaken by a passenger for some sort of code, possibly terroristic. Oh, and he has dark skin. What does math look like? Would you be able to tell it apart from, say, …

An airline expert has revealed the secret to booking cheap flight tickets and no, it isn’t ‘book in advance’. A number of travel-booking sites will tell users the best times to book but the key, says airline expert Tim Lyon, is not the time you book but the time you …

A group of Jewish families that included elderly people, pregnant women and children were taken off an EasyJet passenger plane in Barcelona waiting to depart for Paris, according to a report on the European Jewish Press. One of the passengers, a Holocaust survivor, said the behavior of police who came …

Starting 4th July 2016, Emirates will launch a third daily service between Dubai and Cape Town, operated by Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

The Managing Director of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Engr. Saleh Dunoma has urged the agency’s staff to adhere strictly to safety standards and procedure in line with Standard and Recommended Practices, recommended by the international Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). He said while addressing staff of the department of …

SINGAPORE – A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane was involved in a near-collision with a Korean Air jet at Incheon International Airport in Seoul last Thursday (May 5), local media reported. Disaster was narrowly averted when an air traffic controller ordered SQ16, which was bound for San Francisco, to make an …