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 […]
NIGERIA’S foreign exchange crisis has taken another huge toll on its air travel industry as cost of air fares on some foreign routes have soared following the recent decision by some foreign airlines to relocate their ticketing and sales offices to Ghana. This was as Spanish national carrier, Iberia Airlines would suspend its Lagos-Madrid operation […]
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 […]
More than 66,000 passengers were airlifted from the Ilorin International Airport, while 2,812 aircraft movements were also recorded from January to December in 2015. These figures were released yesterday in Ilorin by the Operation unit of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Ilorin. The passengers figure, FAAN stated, was above the 2014 statistics which […]
Passengers of a Turkish Airlines' flight who forced their way into the tarmac and barricaded the aircraft at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja over their missing luggage have collected the luggage, it was learnt yesterday. The passengers had invaded the tarmac last weekend after the Turkish aircraft failed to bring their luggage. The tarmac […]
Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Mr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam, on Wednesday assured air travel passengers of adequate safety as necessary facilities had been put in place to forestall plane crashes in the country. The NAMA boss appeared before the senate ad-hoc committee on Aviation, to explain efforts being made by his agency […]
Medview Airline will on November 20 flag off flight on the Lagos-London route. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole said the United Kingdom and Nigerian civil aviation authorities and their foreign affairs ministries had given the airline all approvals required to operate direct flight between the two countries. Unlike […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has urged airlines and other air services providers to become more customer-centric as customer experience remains the top driver of aviation service around the world. Speaking at an aviation industry forum in Lagos, the director-general of NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman said, 82 per cent of air passengers cite customer […]
Emergency patients being conveyed in two ambulances were stuck in traffic between Warewa and Arepo end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday. PUNCH Metro observed that the ambulances taking the patients could not move, as the road was blocked. Our correspondent observed a nurse, who had become desperate, waving a blue flag to appeal for […]
In a bizarre incident Sunday, a 24 year old man who was "running amok" on an Aer Lingus flight from Lisbon, Portugal to Dublin, Ireland died aboard the plane. According to the Irish Mirror, the man was acting violent on the flight and tried to bite at least one fellow passenger. A pilot told controllers the […]
