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• Flights
• 03/05/2020 14:46

Outlook for the African Airlines

As with IATA’s financial forecast for the Middle East, the organisation’s estimates for Africa also make for grim reading. It found the continent’s airlines could lose $6 billion of passenger revenue compared to 2019, which is $2bn more than was predicted at the start of April.

Al Bakri said: “Airlines in Africa are struggling for survival… read more

• Leisure
• 31/03/2020 05:25

Dana offers fleet to the governement to fight COVID-19

CEO of Dana Air, Jacky Hathiramani, wrote in a letter to the Nigerian Minister of Aviation and said, the airline would make resources, aircraft in its fleet and crew for the national assignment available whenever needed or requested. H… read more

• Flights
• 22/03/2020 06:44

NCAA will close all Nigerian airports

The Nigeran Civil Aviation Authority has announced to close all airports in Nigeria as of 23rd of March at 23:00hrs until 23rd of April at 23:00 hrs for all incoming international flights:

They have also stated that emergency and essential flights will be excepted. Domestic flights will continue to operate normal.

• Flights
• 16/03/2020 07:42

Cabo Verde Airline suspends Lagos route

Cabo Verde Airlines has announced it will supend all flights between Sal Island and Lagos in Nigeria wirth immedeate effect.

This decision is as per Cabo verde governement decision not to operate into COVID-19 areas - and Nigeria is considered to be one of those areas.

• Flights
• 05/03/2020 12:08

Nigeria's Air Peace with new Embraer ERJ-145 Aircraft

Air Peace has taken delivery of its first Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft. The aircraft will assist to increase capacity for national and regional city pairs.

The aircraft with the registration number 5N-BXG, arrived from Marocco at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 19.30hrs on Wednesday, March 4, 2020,

• Flights
• 03/03/2020 17:59

Dana Air: How to use additional aircrafts?

Dana Air (Nigeria) has announced that as part of it route consolidation and route expansion project, it has introduced additional flights on it Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Uyo routes. This will bring the number of daily operations to 36 flights. The two additional aircrafts are Boeing B737-300 and this brings the size of Dana's fleet now to nine aircrafts.

• Flights
• 16/02/2020 06:49

Nigeria's Green Africa Airways goes shopping

Not even airborne, but Nigeria's Green Africa Airways is currently in the second stage of fleet planning. If you have a closer look into that, it becomes very clear: something very big might happen in Nigeria.

The Lagos-based start-up airline - already in 2018 - had announced plans to buy 100 Boeing 737 MAX. The B737 MAX is not… read more

• Flights
• 23/01/2020 10:10

Another new route in Nigeria: Asaba to Kano and v.v.

Today, Air Peace in Nigeria has announced another new route. Domestic routes a currently open almost on a weekly basis in Nigeria and follwing the developments, it can be detected that the new routes do not touch Lagos or Abuja anymore.

Air Peace opens a new route from Asaba to Kano as of tomorrow, 24th of January.

• Flights
• 21/01/2020 09:01

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

• Flights
• 11/01/2020 04:40

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