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  Palliatives cannot solve problems of airlines, says Air Peace boss  JANUARY 4, 2021  0 By Kelvin Osa Okunbor Chairman of Air Peace and Vice Chairman Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Mr Allen Onyema declared.

  Rooting for PPP in airport management  JANUARY 5, 2021  0 Global trends in airport management across the globe is moving in the direction of private sector participation, affirming agitations in...

 Aviation experts to examine human errors in air crashes Players and experts in aviation sector will meet  next week in Lagos to discuss ways of reducing the high rate of human errors in air crashes  at a one day conference. The conference put together by Accident Investigation Bureau   Nigeria ( AIB-N) and Aviation Media will serve as a platform for  pilots, aircraft engineers , personnel of emergency responders and other stakeholders to examine ways of reducing the high rate of human errors in air crashes. Speaking in an interview, AIB-N , Commissioner, Engineer Akin Olateru said the agency considered it imperative to consider the theme  : “Preventing Human Factors In Accident Occurrences” , because  about 75 per cent of air accidents often occur as a result of  human factors. He listed issues constituting human factors  to include : inadequate training for technical personnel, poor facilities, fatigue and poor communication between th...

Air Peace deplanes unruly passenger ...... Insists on strict safety standards Air Peace has said it deboarded a passenger identified as Mr. Christopher Aniagboso from its Lagos-Owerri flight to guarantee the safety of its crew and customers. In a statement issued by Air Peace Corporate Communications Manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah, the carrier insisted that conducts with the potential of jeopardising the safety of its passengers and crew were not welcome on any of its flights. The statement said: “Mr. Christopher Aniagboso had missed his morning Lagos-Owerri flight on May 12, 2019. He later showed up for the afternoon flight in good time and was issued an over-wing exit seat on request. “After boarding, he was approached by a crew member for the normal safety briefing for passengers in the over-wing exit seats, but he suddenly claimed he could not understand English. Other passengers around him offered to translate to him, but he insisted that th...

Anxiety grips aviation agencies' head over sack of FAAN Managing Director  ......Industry players say it is long overdue  .......Urges clean up in NCAA, NIMET, others  Palpable anxiety on Monday gripped heads of aviation agencies including Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) , Nigerian Airspace Management Agency ( NAMA) , Nigerian College of Aviation Technology ( NCAT) , Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) , Nigerian Meteorological Services ( NIMET) following the sack of the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN) , Saleh Dunoma. Sources hinted that the removal of Dunoma may spark the process for cleaning up the sector by out going Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who is poised to return to the industry as substantive minister. Heads of the agencies were on Monday anxious over what might become their fate as Sirika ramp up inauguration of facilities at some airports at the weekend in Lagos...

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Med-View Boss To Chair 23rd LAAC Annual Conference Alhaji Muneer Bankole, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Med-View Airline has been selected as the Chairman of the forthcoming Conference and Awards of the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC). Speaking with the committee in his office, recently, Bankole said that the resolutions reached at the conference in the past had helped to shape the industry. The event, which is scheduled to hold on July 17, 2019 at Raddison Blu Hotel is with the theme: ‘Boosting Aviation Investment Through Policy.’ Bankole stated that members of the league had been able to put the government on its toes through objective and analytical writings, while the policies of the government for the industry are reviewed by reporters on the beat. He said: “LAAC over the years has been our partner in progress. Members of the league have been tremendously useful to the growth of the airline and the industry at large. Without you doing the i...