Foreign airlines
3 Jan
West Africa’s leading ground handling service provider, NAHCO Aviance, has extended groundling contracts with three leading international carriers, Emirates, Turkish and Virgin Atlantic.
18 Oct
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has clarified that the directive mandating outbound flights to patronise local caterers does not compel foreign airlines to serve Nigerian dishes, but strictly mandates them to engage Nigerian caterers.
12 Apr 2024
A time was when the Lagos-London route competition had Nigeria Airways and its British counterpart. It was a feisty battle, not between the national carriers, but between two sovereign countries. That was in the 90s.
22 Mar 2024
Foreign airlines, yesterday, said they were yet to receive payment of their stuck funds, contrary to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) clearance of all valid foreign exchange backlog.
4 Feb 2024
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo, has stated that foreign airlines have about $600 million backlog still trapped in commercial banks.
2 Feb 2024
Following the announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that it had concluded payment of trapped funds to foreign airlines, representatives of foreign airlines in Nigeria have asked the government to effect payment in line with the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA).
19 Jan 2024
Sequel to the last intervention by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), foreign airlines and travel agencies have made a fresh appeal for a structured plan to fully defray $751 million outstanding stuck fund in Nigeria.