Buhari Commission's PH Airport Terminal President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commissioned the 600 million dollars new international terminal of the Port Harcourt Airport. The project was funded by the Export-Import Bank of China and the Nigerian Government. The airport has a single terminal with separate facilities for international and domestic flights. For more than 12 years now the airport had gone through series of repairs forcing NCAA to shut down the airport on August18,2006 to allow for maintenance. Such maintenance had been in planning stages for several months, but an electrical fire on 17 August 2006 made repairs immediately necessary. All domestic flights were diverted to Sam Mbakwe Airport (Owerri), Akanu Ibiam International Airport (Enugu) and Margaret Ekpo International Airport (Calabar), while international flights were diverted to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (Abuja) or Murtala Mohammed International Airport (Lagos). More pix
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced healthy global passenger demand for July with all regions reporting growth. Total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 6.2%, compared to the same month last year. While this was down from 8.1% year-over-year growth in June, it nevertheless marked a solid start to the peak passenger demand season. Monthly capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) increased by 5.5% and load factor rose 0.6 percentage point to a record high for July of 85.2%. “The industry posted another month of solid traffic growth. And the record load factor shows that airlines are becoming even more efficient in terms of deploying capacity to meet demand. However, rising costs -- particularly fuel -- will likely limit the stimulus we would expect from lower airfares. Therefore, we do expect to see a continued slowing of growth compared to 2017,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO. J
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced healthy global passenger demand for July with all regions reporting growth. Total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 6.2%, compared to the same month last year. While this was down from 8.1% year-over-year growth in June, it nevertheless marked a solid start to the peak passenger demand season. Monthly capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) increased by 5.5% and load factor rose 0.6 percentage point to a record high for July of 85.2%. “The industry posted another month of solid traffic growth. And the record load factor shows that airlines are becoming even more efficient in terms of deploying capacity to meet demand. However, rising costs -- particularly fuel -- will likely limit the stimulus we would expect from lower airfares. Therefore, we do expect to see a continued slowing of growth compared to 2017,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO. J
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for governments to facilitate the growth of global connectivity by avoiding creeping re-regulation, maintaining the integrity of global standards, and addressing a capacity crisis. The call came in the IATA Director General’s Report on the Air Transport Industry at the 74th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit. "On aviation’s core mission to deliver safe, secure, accessible and sustainable connectivity, the state of our industry is strong and getting stronger. And with "normal" levels of profitability we are spreading aviation’s benefits even more widely. But there are challenges. Smarter regulation needs to counter the trend of creeping re-regulation. Global standards must be maintained by the states that agreed them. And we need to find efficient solutions to the looming capacity crisis," said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO. Re-Regulatio
As part of its facility upgrade drive, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA),has finally resolved to install Category III A - Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at Lagos and Abuja international airports. ICAO and FAA definition : ‘’A category III A approach, is a precision instrument approach and landing with no decision height lower than 100ft(30m) and a runway visual range not less than 700ft (200m)’’. The managing director of the agency, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, who disclosed this to the media, said the installation of these landing aids at the two international airports would enhance safety and ease flight operations during inclement weather. The MD, had during an interview with ATQ explained the necessary logistics that would be required before installing such navaids, saying that there would be need for uninterrupted power supply, perimeter fencing on the signals propagated by these aids, onboard equipment and training of the pilot among other things. Akinkuo
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) wishes to advise the public and all aviation stakeholders to disregard the misguided attempt to discredit statistical data emanating from the Authority. We wish to state that NCAA stands by its statistics. The figures are verifiable and are harmonized by all relevant aviation parastatals, government agencies and handling companies. It is therefore important for the public to be aware that there is a disparity between NCAAs data collection basis and FAANs. In addition, 5% Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) is not based on the total tickets sold but only on flown tickets. On the other hand, FAAN computes its Passenger Service Charge (PSC) on all categories of passengers flying through the airport. Furthermore, 5% TSC applies to all tickets originating from Nigeria with the exclusion of Diplomats, Tickets sold offshore, infants tickets and staff tickets. These are all classified as non-taxable tickets. Please note that tickets sold by National As
Arik Air flight W3 304 from Lagos to Accra on March 6, 2018 declared an emergency in line with standard operating procedures, when unknown source of smoke was detected in the cabin 81 miles from Accra. The captain of the flight briefed the passengers accordingly assuring them that the aircraft was under control and safe for landing in Accra. The aircraft, a Dash 8 Q400, landed safely in Accra without further incident and all passengers disembarked normally. The aircraft is currently parked in Acrra and our team of engineers are conducting comprehensive inspections on the aircraft to ascertain the cause of the smoke, after which the aircraft will be flown on Thursday to Lagos without passengers to a maintenance facility for rectification and testing. The relevant aviation authorities in Ghana and Nigeria have been briefed appropriately on the incident,a statement signed Banji Ola,the spokesman of the airline said.
The International Air transport Association (IATA) has set out an aim for one billion passengers to fly on flights powered by a mix of jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2025. This aspiration was identified on the tenth anniversary of the first flight to blend sustainable aviation fuel and ordinary jet fuel. On 24 February 2008, a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 flew from London to Amsterdam with sustainable aviation fuel in one of its engines. The flight demonstrated the viability of drop-in biofuels, which can be blended with traditional jet fuel, using existing airport infrastructure. A flight completely powered by sustainable fuel has the potential to reduce the carbon emissions of that flight by up to 80%. "The momentum for sustainable aviation fuels is now unstoppable. From one flight in 2008, we passed the threshold of 100,000 flights in 2017, and we expect to hit one million flights during 2020. But that is still just a drop in the o