BY CHUKWUEMEKE IWELUNMO The managing director of Aero Contractors, Capt Ado Sanusi says there was a very minimum growth and achievements in the aviation industry in 2024 falling short of all expectations. In an interview with select of journalists in his office, Capt Sanusi said nothing remarkable was achieved last year worth celebrating. According to […]
Captain Ado Sanusi, Managing Director of Aero Contractors, a soft spoken airline pilot, an astute administrator, who turned around the ailing oldest commercial airline in the country for better, in this interview with Aviation Editor, Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo, speaks on critical issues militating against the growth of the aviation industry. Excerpts: Since you came back as […]
A Port Harcourt-bound Aero Contractors passenger plane originating from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, developed a fault mid-air on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, and had to return to the Nigerian capital. Reports quoted a passenger on the flight as saying that the aircraft was already on its way when the pilot noticed some faults and […]
By Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Managing Director of Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi has said no airline can succeed or make profit basing their operations on wet-leasing aircraft stating that most wet-lease agreements in the country are only to fill a particular lacuna for a short term. This is just as he has said that no aviation […]
By Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Aero Contractors will from September 1, 2020, begin shuttle services from Kaduna to Abuja deploying its Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft in response to the yearnings of travellers from the capital of the northern state, Daily Times gathered. Travellers have shunned travelling by road due to potential security threats. The airline said in […]
The management of Aero Contractors says the airline is currently working with the relevant health authorities on contact tracing other passengers on the flight that ferried both the Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed and Mohammed Abubakar, the son of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. The statement by the airline said that apart from measures taken by […]
Chief Executive Officer of Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi has said the Maintenance Repair Overhaul (MRO) part of the organisation’s business is prepared to meet new challenges as its engineers are now trained on 737NGs, Embraers along with their certification for 737 Classics and the Dash 8 Q-300/400. The Aero boss who was responding to […]
Aero Maintenance Repair Overhaul ( MRO) and Ramco systems, a global software provider based in Chennai, India has entered a technical partnership that would be automated the former’s MRO processes and bring more efficiency into its operations. The partnership which includes N200 million investment by Aero in the last five years to join Ramco’s network […]
Aero Contractors, said it is partnering South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya and United Kingdom firms for full usage of its recently launched Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos. The facility, which could carry out C-check maintenance on Boeing 737 aircraft, the airline said was also set up to catre […]
Airline passengers in Nigeria especially those that patronise Arik Air have praised the On-Time-Performance (OTP) of Arik Air since the intervention of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Recall that following a huge debt profile of Arik to AMCON and other creditors around the globe, Asset Management company took over the management of the airline […]
Aero Contractors Airlines, on Tuesday, announced the resumption of its schedule services across the country from today, Wednesday, after four months self-imposed suspension, which was embarked upon as a strategic business realignment to reposition the airline and return it to the part of profitability. Aero, in a statement by its media consultant, Simon Tumba, said it […]