Aviation

Air France – KLM has appointed Eric Caron Senior Vice President and General Manager for North America, a new role. Based in New York, he will oversee Air France and KLM passenger activities within Canada, French Polynesia, Mexico, and the United States. Mr. Caron was most recently based in Paris, France …

Etihad Engineering, the largest commercial aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services provided in the Middle East, has signed a strategic partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), to provide passengers to Freighter (P2F) conversions on Boeing 777-300ER’s. In 2019, IAI and GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced the launch of …

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, will launch daily scheduled year-round flights to Tel Aviv, the economic and technological center of Israel. The launch of flights follows the normalization of diplomatic ties between the two nations, and the signing of the Abraham Accords between the UAE and Israel …

Etihad Airways has provided an update on its current and planned operations as COVID-19 travel restrictions remain in place around the world.  Subject to UAE government imposed travel restrictions being lifted on passenger travel, Etihad plans to operate a reduced network of scheduled passenger services from 1 May to 30 June, with …

The Republic of Ghana announced its intent to purchase GEnx-1B engines for its three Boeing 787 Dreamliners that will be used to re-launch an airline in the African nation. The engine order is valued at more than $150 million list price. “GE Aviation is honored to provide GEnx engines for …

An aviation expert, Mr Adewale Sanni on Thursday urged oil marketing companies to institute trackers in the monitoring of trucks with a view to checking products diversion and other unethical practices. Sanni, who is the Country Station Manager of Lufthansa, gave the advice at the Total Nigeria Plc Africa Customers …

It was a gathering of the titans in the African and United Arab Emirates Aviation cum Tourism Industry at the just concluded 15th Akwaaba African Travel Market. One of the highlights was the need for countries on the African Continent to implement the SAATM in order to grow the Aviation …

By Pearl Ngwama The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced that all the aircraft in the fleet of Air Peace Nigeria Limited are airworthy. The NCAA declared this after it concluded a thorough technical audit of the airline and its fleet of aircraft with a view to ensuring the airline …

Aviation stakeholders at the just concluded League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) annual conference bemoaned that Nigerian airlines are deliberately being frustrated by international aeropolitics. Chairman, Air Peace, Barr. Allen Onyema, while speaking at the Conference noted that aeropolitics takes a toll on Nigerian carriers on international routes and …

The Dubai-based carrier celebrates carrying more than 70 million passengers since its start of operations in 2009, more than five million of which were carried on its African routes; flydubai passenger traffic between the UAE and its African routes grew by 108% since 2015. 10 years ago, flydubai’s first flight …