Air Peace, a Nigerian airline has signed an order for three Embraer E195-E2 planes worth $212.6 million. 
 
The order was signed at the weekend during the ongoing Dubai Air Show. Embraer in a statement said the order confirms purchase rights from the original contract, signed in April 2019. Daily Trust reports that the airline had in April signed for 10 of the aircraft types valued at N2.1 billion. It has increased to 13.
 
“These new E195-E2s will be included in Embraer’s 2019 fourth-quarter backlog and have a value of $212.6m, based on Embraer’s current list prices,” Embraer said. With the order, Air Peace is set to be the first E-Jets E2 operator in Africa…
 
More details through:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/air-peace-signs-212-6m-deal-for-3-embraer-jets.html

The Federal Government may be required to spend $210.5mn (N7.58bn) on new landing equipment at seven airports to improve aircraft movement in adverse weather conditions, Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi reports.
 
Following the high number of delayed and cancelled flights during the harmattan season, the Federal Government plans to install Category lll Instrument Landing System in seven airports across the country.
 
In the first phase of the project, which is expected to cost about N7.58bn, the CAT lll ILS will be installed in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, Katsina, Maiduguri and Sokoto airports.
 
The CAT ll ILS currently in use in the seven airports are expected to be taken to other airports without the instrument to improve landing…
 
More details through:
https://punchng.com/new-landing-equipment-for-airports-to-gulp-n7-58bn/
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Following the improvement in the Nigerian economy after the recession that hit the country, foreign airlines operating in the country sold tickets worth $700 million as at the end of August 2019, according to figures obtained from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
 
The data represented a significant increase in ticket sales compared with the total of $800 million recorded in the whole of 2018. IATA has projected $1 billion foreign airlines’ ticket sales for 2019.
 
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/10/29/foreign-airlines-reap-700m-from-ticket-sales-in-eight-months

The dream for Nigeria to conduct major aircraft maintenance locally and save a substantial part of the over $2 billion spent annually on overseas checks may have materialised with Aero Contractors’ approval to conduct D-check on Boeing B737 classic.
 
Two years ago Aero received certification for Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO) from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to conduct C-checks on Boeing B737 Classics, which is the major aircraft fleet for scheduled commercial operation in Nigeria…
 
More details through:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/08/16/nigeria-begins-high-level-aircraft-maintenance-as-aero-upgrades-to-d-check/

Michel Colleau is the general manager, Air France KLM Nigeria & Ghana. In an interview with IFEOMA OKEKE in Paris, he speaks about Air France/KLM redesigned Airbus 330 and how this has improved customer experience on board. He also speaks on Nigeria’s key position in the African market…
 
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https://businessday.ng/aviation/article/nigeria-is-one-of-our-top-three-biggest-markets-in-africa-colleau/
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In a bid to intensify the fight against drug trafficking, two new body scanners are to be installed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in the coming weeks.
 
The PUNCH gathered that the location where the scanner would be installed at the Abuja airport was under construction and would be completed in about two weeks while the scanner for the Lagos airport would be installed before the end of September.
 
The installation will increase the number of body scanners at Lagos and Abuja airports to four. Both airports had been using one body scanner each, prolonging the time it takes to process passengers especially at peak periods…
 
More details through:
https://punchng.com/lagos-abuja-airports-to-get-new-body-scanners/
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The Nigeria Aviation Handling Company Plc says it has acquired $7mn (N2.5bn) set of equipment for passenger facilitation and other aspects of its business.
 
The Group Managing Director, NAHCO Aviance, Mrs Olatokunbo Fagbemi, who made this known on Thursday, said it was part of the company’s five-year transformational plan to boost growth in the aviation industry.
 
Fagbemi, who spoke at a pre-annual general meeting forum in Kano, was quoted to have said the firm would use the equipment to sustain high-level service delivery across domestic and international airports in the country…
 
More details through:
https://punchng.com/nahco-invests-2-5bn-in-equipment-upgrade/
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The Federal Government through its agency, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency has commenced the installation of prefabricated pilot joint briefing offices nationwide.
 
The agency said the move is targeted towards digitising the nation’s aeronautical information service, adding that the installation team which had completed work at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos had proceeded to another airport and would continue the installation in 21 airports and three aerodromes nationwide…
 
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https://punchng.com/fg-begins-pilot-briefing-office-installation-in-24-airports/
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The absence of a functional national carrier in Nigeria, and other African major air markets has been blamed for local airlines’ loss of international air traffic to their foreign counterparts. The dominance, which has steadied at 80 per cent in the last couple of years, cost indigenous operators both potential revenue and growth.
 
The Group Chief Executive officer (GCEO) of Ethiopian Airlines (ET), Tewolde Gebremariam, alluded to this recently in Abuja, warming that the dominance may, in fact, worsen if Nigeria, among others, do not float a national carrier and make flag carriers competitive…
 
More details through:
https://guardian.ng/business-services/why-foreign-airlines-retain-80-air-traffic-share-in-nigeria-others/