Nigeria Aviation News Headlines for Thursday December 8, 2016

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Good morning this morning to all of us. 

The Luggage issues Arik Air had on London route is receiving attention from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Arik has been mandated by the regulatory body to pay 150 United States dollars to every passenger affected despite the airline's explanations about the issue.

NCAA to Sanction Arik over Passengers’ Luggage

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…..Airline to pay each customer $150

For allegedly failing to deliver passengers’ luggage, the nation’s aviation regulatory body, The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it will sanction Arik.
The carrier disclosed that the airline failed to ferry passengers’ luggage over 48 hours after arrival at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
 The director, Consumer Protection, NCAA, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, who disclosed this in an interview with journalists at the international wing of the Lagos airport shortly after addressing stranded irate Arik passengers said, the airline has violated the Montreal convention of 1999.
But the airline in a statement by its spokesman, Banji Ola gave reasons why passengers’ baggage on its Lagos – Heathrow (London) route has been delayed for three days citing the use of a smaller aircraft on the route.
 Ola said the carrier had to deploy a Boeing 737-800 aircraft on the route because its Airbus 330-200 aircraft allocated to the route is undergoing maintenance.



Anxiety as Abuja Airport Closes in February

Anxiety as Abuja airport closes in February

The Federal Government of Nigeria is considering shutting down the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja in February in order to relay the runway.According to DailyTrust sources, the maintenance has become necessary following threats by some international airlines to stop landing in Abuja due to heavy damage the runway has suffered over the years.The stretch of runaway that is currently in use at the airport has fallen just short of the International Civil Aviation (ICAO) regulations and doesn’t give sufficient room for manoeuvre in case of any emergency and this has caused the international airline operators to worry about safety.According to experts, the option available is to undertake a two-week maintenance work on the damaged parts of the runway, which is projected to give the runway an extended lifespan of two years.Government is set to award the contract o German construction firm, Julius Berger to relay the entire runway, a project that is estimated to take about six weeks and could give the runway a lifespan of 10 years.

African Airlines Record Slow Traffic Demand – IATA

CEO of IATA Mr. Alexandre de Juniac.
 photo credit: https://web.facebook.com/alexandredejuniacofficial/
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced global passenger traffic results for October showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometres, or RPKs) rose 5.8 per cent compared to the same month last year. Capacity grew 6.3 per cent and load factor slid 0.4 percentage points to 80.1 per cent.
But for African airlines, traffic growth slowed to 5.8 per cent year-on-year in October, from 9.1 per cent in September.  The analysis was prepared by IATA’s Economics Unit in Geneva, Switzerland.

48 Die In Pakistani Plane Crash

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In a tragic report, none of  the 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft that crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan yesterday survived the accident, the airline’s chairman has said.
Muhammad Azam Saigol told a press conference late on Wednesday, “There are no survivors, no one has survived,” this was about five hours after flight PK661 from Chitral to the capital, Islamabad, crashed near the town of Havelian, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The airline had previously declared 48 people were on board the aircraft.
Saigol further went  on to say that the ATR-42 aircraft had gone through regular maintenance and had in October passed an “A-check” certification, conducted after every 500 hours of flight operations.
“I think that there was no technical error or human error … obviously there will be a proper investigation,” he said.
Flight PK-661 is said to have gone down on its way from Chitral to Islamabad.

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