Dubai: Thundershowers raged over Abu Dhabi from Thursday night until early morning Friday as different intensities of rain pour over Dubai and areas of northern emirates on Friday. The surface low pressure area deepened as forecast on Thursday till Friday, bringing different intensities of rain in the UAE. Unstable weather …
Read More »Aftermath: It Just Doesn’t Compute: History repeats itself, but nothing is learned.
The rudder travel limiter of the Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 began acting up in January 2014. Attempts to fix it were unsuccessful, and failures became increasingly frequent. In the course of 74 flights between December 19 and December 27, 2014, the airplane’s electronic centralized aircraft monitoring system, or ECAM, reported …
Read More »Photos|Wow! Emmas Ojus Ifesiokwu formerly of Virgin Nigeria delivers Twins
Na double double! Congrats! to the Ifesiokwus.
Read More »Yippee! Veteran Captain Abdulsalami Mohammed is 60 today
Yippee! Veteran Pilot, Captain Abdulsalami Mohammed is 60 today. Jion me in wishing this distinguished gentleman, role model, mentor, Coach, Pilot, Training Captain, Director of Flight Operations, Managing Director, Chairman, committee on National Carrier and Currently Ncaa Inspector a happy birthday today. Congratulations to a great Aviator!
Read More »Air Peace to commence Direct International flights from Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu
Air Peace to commence Direct International flights from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu this year. This was made known by the CEO of Air Peace, Barr. Allen Onyema at the Enugu Investment Summit holding in Enugu. Air Peace Limited was named Airline Partner for the Oganiru Enugu State Investment Summit. The …
Read More »Photos|Capt Opusunju retires from flying after over 43 years in the cockpit
Capt. Martin Okunpolor of Aero post these photos on his facebook page today and wrote: “Capt Opusunju retired from flying today after over 43 years in the cockpit….Enjoy your retirement sir.” Wow! nice way to leave the stage. Congratulations Captain.
Read More »A Woman Created a Bikini Airline and Became Vietnam’s First Female Billionaire
Meet Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Vietnam’s first female self-made billionaire. Much of her net worth comes from her company VietJet Air, which on its website calls itself a “dynamic, innovative airline.” But some might have other words for what it is her company is doing. Indeed, VietJet isn’t known so much for its CEO …
Read More »EU approves airline passenger records directive
The European Parliament has approved a joint system for police and justice officials to access airline passenger data on all flights to and from the EU. The measure was passed by 461 votes to 179 against. Counter-terrorism officials have lobbied for years for the introduction of Passenger Name Records (PNR), …
Read More »Birthdays for today| Francois Dantoye George of Azman Air and Ayo Soyele of Arik Air
Francois Dantoye George of Azman Air is a year older today. Ayo Soyele of Arik Air is a year older today.
Read More »Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport partly evacuated in security alert
Dozens of heavily armed military police flooded into Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Tuesday night, evacuating part of the busy travel hub and arresting one man during a four-hour security alert. The incident came as the Netherlands has been on high alert following the 22 March attack on Brussels airport and …
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