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I received a call yesterday from an intending Air France passenger who confirmed that some passengers who checked in online were requested to pay N3,000 naira each to get a printed copy of their boarding passes. According to the source, those who checked in online and were already on the …

Omodunbi Mathew is a year older today

A mild drama unfolded on Wednesday at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, when a middle – aged female passenger billed to travel with Etihad Airways died inside one of the toilets at the airport. Though details about the circumstances that led to her death …

Justice Abubakar Sadiq Umar of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to stop further hearing on a suit filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Minister of Aviation, Babalola Borishade and four others as prayed by the defendant’s counsel. Borishade, his former personal …

The former Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) pilot and the pioneer President of Captain DafiekoSama Flight Safety Foundation, Capt. Tito Augustine Omaghomi is dead. A statement signed by the Vice President, ‘The Sama Foundation’, Mr Dafe –Urhobo Sama stated that Capt Tito as he was popularly called died on Sunday, January …

The body of a dead person found in a Western Global Airlines cargo plane destined for Durban, South Africa on Sunday has been taken for a post-mortem, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has confirmed. Police also confirmed that the plane’s cabin crew was still in the country but refused to divulge …

A man who allegedly launched a mid-air attack on the crew of a flight from Dubai to London was restrained when a travelling police officer put him in a headlock. The passenger is said to have become violent during the flight, attacking three members of staff on the Emirates plane …

No one, it seems, is immune to the danger of laser beams aimed at commercial airplanes. Not even Pope Francis. In a statement released Wednesday, Alitalia said one of its crews plus those on “other aircraft” in the area “noticed a laser light from the ground” as the pontiff’s plane prepared …

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Mojereola, popularly called MJ is a year older today. Happy birthday MJ.