Airport Reporters

  Review of activities in the aviation sector for 2021   Significantly, emerging challenges  propelled by the new variant of COVID - 19 : Omicron has  altered  the stakes for the  aviation industry as the curtain draws on  2021  in the  next four days. But, there is a silver lining in the cloud for domestic carriers, which are revving their aircraft engines for year - end passenger traffic amid rife competition, aircraft deliveries and other survival strategies, writes KELVIN OSA OKUNBOR. The last twelve months  has been a mixed bag for the strategic sector, following huge impacts from travel bans, row over flight frequencies between some governments and other unsavoury developments. flight bans were placed on Nigeria by the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, which have since been lifted following condemnation by many organisations. Activities in the global aviation sector have been upbeat in the last twelve  months as airl...

  Airlines' crave for new aircraft  Prohibitive maintenance cost, safety perception and the need to reduce carbon emissions on the environment, emerging market dynamics, regulatory push and other considerations are pushing indigenous carriers to do away with geriatric aeroplanes littering the airspace. In what may seem like a race against time, Nigerian carriers are embracing the new trends in terms of acquiring different types of new planes which now dominate the skyline, KELVIN OSA-OKUNBOR reports. A new culture is evolving in the Nigerian aviation sector as operators are going through a mutation of phasing out geriatric aeroplanes which dominated their fleet a few years ago. Under the new arrangement, a myriad of factors – strategy, cost considerations, market demand, and industry perception-is increasingly paving the way for new aeroplanes as operators embrace the global fad of gathering new aircraft in their fleet. But, the new move is not by accident as the operators are...