Nigeria’s Aviation News Headlines for Thursday Sept. 15, 2016
Arik Air is trending and it is understandable because the
airline is currently the largest carrier in Nigeria in both fleet size and
route coverage. The airline has bounced back to full flight operations after
Tuesday’s disruption and it’s already clearing the backlog of passengers.
Please find the headlines below and follow the link to read
the story in full.
Nigeria Airlines Spend N6.3bn on Offshore Pilot Training
It has been ascertained that an airline with four aircraft spends at least $600,000 on simulator training for its pilots. This means that the airline spends $150,000 on pilot training for each aircraft. Consequently, major airlines spend $8.3 million (N1.25 billion) every six months, and $16.7 million (N6.4 billion) every year.
Flight simulation reduces significantly the cost of flight crew training. The Federal Government had, in 2014, said it would purchase full Jet- Flight Simulators (5000 Series B737) to be located at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
Arik Resumes Operations
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Arik resumes operations, reschedules flights
It has been ascertained that an airline with four aircraft spends at least $600,000 on simulator training for its pilots. This means that the airline spends $150,000 on pilot training for each aircraft. Consequently, major airlines spend $8.3 million (N1.25 billion) every six months, and $16.7 million (N6.4 billion) every year.
Flight simulation reduces significantly the cost of flight crew training. The Federal Government had, in 2014, said it would purchase full Jet- Flight Simulators (5000 Series B737) to be located at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
Nigeria’s largest carrier, Arik Air, Wednesday announced that it resumed flight by 11a.m. and operated 85
flights both on the local, West Coast and Lagos-London service.
Thisdaylive.com learnt that it operated three
flights to Accra, Ghana yesterday and according to the airline, it would
operate 120 flights from thursday.
Members of the public and our esteemed
customers are advised to discountenance the disparaging allegations,
unsubstantiated and uninformed claims about the airline’s inability to
meet its financial obligations to aviation fuel marketers and a
purported withdrawal of insurance services to Arik Air by its insurers,”
spokesman of the airline, Adebanji Ola said.
Nigeria’s
Independence: Virgin Atlantic Slashes Fare On Lagos/London Route
In its own way of
rejoicing with Nigeria on the celebration of its forthcoming 56th independence
anniversary, Virgin Atlantic is launching a special promotional fare for
customers that want to visit family and friends within the period.
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Virgin Atlantic operates daily flights between Murtala Mohammed International Airport and London Heathrow Terminal 3 with youngest fleets of aircraft with a choice of upper, premium economy or economy class.
While saying the special fare is available in economy class, the management said Virgin Atlantic’s economy class aims to give maximum value for money, with a contoured, space-saving seats, maximising legroom, state of the art inflight entertainment system offering 300 hours of video on demand where passengers can watch or listen to what they want and can start, pause or rewind their chosen movie, TV show or CD. It also has a choice of three entrees with main meal, including a vegetarian option plus special pack for children.
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