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Dana Air eyes more than 30% growth in Q1/2020
Nigera's Dana Air said, they will increase the number of aircraft in their fleet to nine planes and increase the number of flown passengers from 5.4 mio. to 7.2 Mio by the end of first Quarter 2020.
Dana Air is one of Nigeria’s leading airlines with nine aircraft in its fleet and daily flights from Lagos to Abuja, Port Harcourt, Uyo… read more
Air Peace commences Abuja-Warri-Abuja flights
The development of domestic services in Nigeria, the second largest economy on the African continent, continues: Air Peace announced last week the kick-off its Abuja-Warri-Abuja flights as part of the airline's strategy to boost seamless connections to Nigerians. The new services will be offered on a daily basis. Air Peace' … read more
Hahn Air partners with 40 new airlines in 2020
Hahn AIR has contracted 40 new partners all over the world to use their sales- and ticketing facilities.
17 of the new partners will be using the product HR-169 and hence have entered into an interline agreement with Hahn Air. The remaining 23 carriers are taking advantage of the products H1-Air or X1-Air for airlines that are looki… read more
Ibom Air to expand fleet
The Akwa Ibom State Government (Nigeria, owner of the airline) has acquired two new aircraft for Ibom Airlines to make a total of five aircraft owned by the state. The chairman of Ibom Air, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd), said during a press conference with newsmen in Uyo (Nigeria) that the new aircraft would reach the fleet most li… read more
Does Nigeria's Ibom Air expand to Cameroon?
Ibom Air plans to offer flights between Nigerian an Camroon in the near future, an article by the Vanguard Nigeria daily newspaper reports.
As per market research, Nigerian need to travel via Lomé in order to reach an airport in Cameroon. This is the market Ibom Air plans to step in. Both, Lagos and Nigeria should be connected with … read more
Turkish Airlines' next Africa destination: Malabo
Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea is the airlines' latest destination and flights will start into the West African metropole as of February 7th, 2020. These flights int… read more
Azman Air Services adds another B737
Built as MSN 29073 in June 2004, the airplane has been received officially on 1st of December 2019 from Air Baltic in Riga. After having completed the necessary changes the aircraft has now been ferried from Riga to Kano… read more
Arik resumes service to Asaba
Arik Air, the Nigerian carrier return to the city of Asaba located in the Nigerian Delta State. As of today, Arik will operate daily from Lagos into Asaba.
Apart of the Asaba route, Arik has also increased the frequency between Lagos and Owerri to three times per day. The new flight is an early morning flight departing from Lagos at 7 a.m.
Visa on Arrival for all Africans in Nigeria
The NIS (Nigeria Immigration Service) stated the Federal Government had approved that all Africans could come to Nigeria without Visa effective January 2020. This statement followed another statemont of Nigeras President Buhari. Buhari had attended the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa, held in Egypt.
During this … read more
Updated: TK complies with Nigeria's requirements
The flights from Instanbul into Abuja have seen an equippment change already this last weekend. Instead of operation with B737 the carrier send an Airbus A330 with more than 300 seats and a lot of more cargo space. Reason for the … read more
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