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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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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