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Air passengers have erupted in anger after an airline blamed a volcano for leaving them behind. Allen and Vivienne Snaith were among a group of holidaymakers who were “abandoned” by Emirates on an unscheduled stop in Jakarta on the way to their £9000 holiday to Bali. But he said the …

Remember Mary Sani formerly of Virgin Nigeria now Mary Otoide? Well, the witty, smart wife and Mother is a year older today.

  A four-man team from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has arrived Nigeria to commence the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) on the country’s aviation Monday, March 14, 2016. The arrival of the ICAO four-man team was disclosed to journalists in an online statement signed by the General …

French investigators have called for medical confidentiality to be relaxed for pilots, in the wake of last year’s Germanwings disaster. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was urged by a doctor to attend psychiatric hospital weeks before he crashed the plane on 24 March 2015, but his employer was never alerted, their final …

The Managing Director of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole has attributed the airline’s continued patronage and increase in passenger traffic to passengers’ friendly services and on time departure and arrival. This is just as he disclosed that Lagos-Kaduna flight will commence Tuesday, March 15, 2016. He made the declaration while …

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African teenager vacationing in Mozambique may have found part of a wing from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which his family dismissed as “rubbish” and his mother nearly threw away, he said Friday.  On Dec. 30, Liam Lotter was strolling on a beach in southern …

At the airport, passengers are warned, never leave your personal belongings unattended. A Republic Airlines pilot evidently didn’t heed that advice and left his gun in an unattended bag in a men’s restroom at Philadelphia International Airport on Saturday morning, police said. Five minutes after he left the restroom about …

An aviation expert warned of the possibility of “serious structural damage” after a spanner was seen lodged in the wing of an EasyJet aircraft. The plane was taxiing for take-off from Geneva when a passenger noticed the tool lodged in the wing flaps of the plane. The crew was alerted …

The family of Perth man Paul Weeks, who was on the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, is suing the company for damages. Five writs were lodged on March 4 in the West Australian Supreme Court – four days before the second anniversary of the plane’s mysterious disappearance and just before …

Kenya Airways has embarked on a radical plan to cut costs as management looks to turn around fortunes at the struggling carrier. The airline is in advanced stages in its sale of assets, including land and planes in a bid to draw down the second tranche of its $200 million …