Being pregnant and flying at the same time can be a humongous challenge especially for business women. Combine your pregnancy and the daily stress of running a business, and there is every possibility to feel woozy and tired especially on a long haul flight. However, you can still enjoy your time in the air whether […]
Tempers flared yesterday morning at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, as Medview Airline "suddenly" cancelled a scheduled flight to London. The passengers, in their numbers, frowned on the "unfriendly conduct" of the operator, alleging that they were not carried along. But for the intervention of men of the Nigerian Police, the chaos that […]
As my Lagos bound commercial flight charged out on takeoff roll on Runway-26 at Enugu airport, my heart jumped out of my mouth as a sudden shock jolted the airplane fuselage when the landing gears hit the macadamised portion of the runway; a shoddy construction job embarrassingly delivered by PW construction company less than six […]
A research conducted by local travel booking website Travelstart has revealed that passengers are dissatisfied with their experiences at Nigeria's airports. The research, which was conducted by way of a survey designed to gauge public sentiment around Nigeria's airports, posed questions to more than 500 frequent business and leisure travellers. The survey suggested that 92 […]
Arik Air on Tuesday announced an increase in its frequency on the Lagos-Dakar (Senegal) route to a daily service, up from six weekly flights. This was contained in a statement signed by the Communications Manager of the airline, Mr Adebanji Ola, a copy of which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]
Yes, you can get out of the airport much faster if you observed some simple tricks. Have you ever arrived at an airport and thought to yourself, "I should have travelled yesterday, maybe there were fewer people coming through here." Well, there is no chance in the ever growing airline industry that an airport is […]
TALK about an inspiration. Sibongile Sambo dreamt of being a flight attendant, but she failed to meet the minimum height requirement and was turned away by South African Airways. Instead of accepting defeat, she started her own company, even selling her car and using her mother’s pension in order to set it up. But it’s […]
Nigerian Association of Tour Operators (NATOP) has said that its 2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be used to awaken, rediscover and realign its members to the original objectives of the apex association which is to market destination Nigeria and stimulate increased influx of tourists in to the country. The theme for the meeting is, […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said on Tuesday that it received a total of 7,328 complaints from both domestic and international air passengers in 2015. This is contained in a statement issued by the NCAA. Adurogboye explained that complaints such as short landing (delay in arrival of passenger’s luggage), was a normal occurrence in […]
Following the eradication of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in some West African countries, Arik Air has resumed flight services from Lagos to Freetown, Sierra Leone beginning from February 23, 2016. It would be recalled that the flights were suspended in July 2014 in the wake of Ebola outbreak. The airline said in a statement […]
