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  • Abuja passengers kick as NCAA stops departing plane for inspection

    • January 19, 2022
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    The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority on Tuesday stopped flight VM1609 of MaxAir, to carry out a safety inspection on the airplane after it had boarded passengers and was already taxiing for take-off. It was learnt that the passengers of the flight, which was leaving the Abuja airport for Lagos, kicked against the delay caused by

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  • Omicron: FG To Ban Flights From UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Argentina

    • December 12, 2021
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    The Federal Government is set to ban flights from the United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina and Saudi Arabia in retaliation against their decisions to have included Nigeria in red list countries. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who disclosed this on Sunday revealed on stated that the ban on the three nations would be announced on Monday

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  • MAX AIR COLLIDED WITH STATINARY AIR PEACE PLANE

    • December 12, 2021
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    A taxing Max Air collided with a stationary Air Peace on Saturday at the airport in Benin City, the Edo state capital. According to Air Peace management, the Max Air collided with the right wing of the parked Air peace, damaging the left elevator, rendering the plane grounded and unserviceable. The Statement reads; BENIN INCIDENT

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  • Nigeria-UAE Diplomatic Row: Air Peace Accuses UAE of Falsity

    • December 12, 2021
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    The diplomatic row between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) got messier over the weekend as Air Peace airline allegedly accused the Emirates of falsity that it lost its flight slots at the Sharjah International Airport because it stopped operating commercial flights into the airport. The Management of Air Peace had described the claim

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  • Emirates suspends flights to Nigeria again

    • December 11, 2021
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    Emirates Airlines has suspended once again all its flights to Nigeria as a retaliatory action taken against the Federal Government. The Nigerian government had earlier reduced the frequencies approved for the Middle East airline to just one over an ongoing diplomatic row. In a statement issued by the airline Friday evening, it said, “With the

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  • Air Zimbabwe and Nigeria’s MedView Airlines included on EU’s Blacklist over safety deficiencies

    • December 7, 2021
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    The European Commission has updated its list of airlines banned from operating in the European airspace because they fail to meet international safety standards. The bans are “due to inadequate safety oversight by the aviation authorities of these nations”, the EU Commission said. Fifteen countries have all their airlines, 90 in total, banned from flying over Europe.

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  • RwandaAir Resumes Flight Operations From Lagos To Dubai

    • December 7, 2021
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     RwandAir had announced resumption of flight services from Nigeria to Dubai effective 28th November 2021. RwandAir Limited is the flag carrier airline of Rwanda. It operates domestic and international services to East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from its main base at Kigali International Airport in Kigali Below

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  • Air Peace Denies Charging Higher Air Fares On South East Routes

    • December 5, 2021
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    Air Peace has denied allegations that it charges higher flight ticket fares for South East routes, saying that those making such allegations are ignorant of how ticket fare pricing is done. Reacting to a video that went viral on social media, showing higher ticket fares for flights to the South East and lower ticket fares

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  • New Zambia Airways To Begin Operations December 1

    • November 30, 2021
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    Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has finalized preparations for the launch of Zambia’s National Carrier in a joint venture with Industrial Development Corporation Limited (IDC). Ethiopian has 45 percent stake in the joint venture while Industrial Development Corporation Limited (IDC) retains 55 percent, the shareholders have

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  • United Airlines returns to Nigeria, starts non-stop flight between Lagos, Washington D.C.

    • November 30, 2021
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    United Airlines has inaugurated its new non-stop flights between its hub at Washington Dulles International Airport and Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos with the arrival of the first flight. With three weekly flights, United is the first and only airline serving Washington, D.C. nonstop from Lagos. The flight is operated with state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner

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