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The Management of Ethiopian Airlines has submitted a formal proposal to take charge of troubled carrier Arik Air, which accounts for more than half of air passenger in Nigeria, The Nation quoted an official statistics. Esayas WoldeMariam, Ethiopian Airlines’ managing director of international...

panic gripped over 100 passengers on Tuesday as Medview Airline flight from Lagos to Abuja was suspended midair after a fault was observed. According to Premium Times, a passenger on the flight said passengers suspected the plane, with flight number VL 2102, was faulty before takeoff, but they...

The Federal Government has appointed three new Directors and a General Manager for the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). A statement signed by FAAN’s Acting General Manager, Mr Henrietta Yakubu, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja. Yakubu said the newly appointed directors are Group...

Arik Air has suspended flight operations to London and Johannesburg, the two most lucrative routes of the embattled airline. The airline made this known in a statement made available to New Telegraph. It said the strategic business decision was meant to realign their operations and refocus on...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said the air return made by a Qatar Airways aircraft on Feb. 9 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was caused by a bird strike on one of its engines. The NCAA made the clarification in a statement signed by its General Manager...

Arik Air on Wednesday said it has chartered a B767-300ER aircraft to minimise the disruption and inconveniences caused passengers on its Lagos-New York route. The airline also announced the resumption of flight to the American city from Thursday (today). Mr Ola Adebanji, the airline’s head of...

Staff of Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik, have shut down its operations in Lagos over inability of the company to pay seven month salaries. The staff are currently staging a protest at the domestic terminal of the Murtala Muhammed airport. The protesters displayed placards containing...

Indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government will soon resume its retrenchment exercise in the agencies under the Aviation Ministry. Sahara Reporters quoted the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, saying this on Saturday night during his...

An Arik Air aircraft lost one of its two engines mid-air with over 100 passengers on board at the weekend. The aircraft, a Boeing 737 with the registration number 5N-MJD, departed Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, for Jos when the pilot discovered that the plane had lost one of its engines...

Another domestic carrier, First Nation Airlines, on Thursday shut down operations, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has said. In a statement issued by the NCAA on Thursday and signed by its DG, it said, “The First Nation Airlines on its part is in the middle of an Engine Replacement...

No fewer than 14 foreign airlines have withdrawn their services from the country due to low patronage on account of the economic recession and foreign exchange crisis, Guardian reports. Foreign airlines operating in the country are estimated to have lost about N64 billion in the wake of the new...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority says all airlines’ tariffs for services rendered, which include fares, rates, add-on charges or terms and condition of service, have been fully liberalised. This was contained in a statement by the General Manager, Public Relations of NCAA, Sam Adurogboye...