The partnership between Dana Air and the Imo State Government has started yielding benefits with the recent unveiling of a multi-million naira sponsorship deal with Heartland Football Club of Owerri, Imo state. The season-long sponsorship deal which is part of the airlines’ support to the newly-promoted Imo state based team’s 2018 league campaign, will see […]
Over $90 million will henceforth be saved as capital flight being spent on aircraft maintenance by the Nigerian airlines whenever they take their aircraft to foreign countries for maintenance. This has been made possible with the successful in-house maintenance checks conducted on a Boeing 737-500 plane in the fleet of Aero Contractors by its engineers. […]
Med-View Airline will on Sunday September 10 commence the airlift of over 17,000 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia back to Nigeria. Chief executive officer of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole who disclosed this yesterday assured that the return trips would be completed in two weeks. The airline airlifted pilgrims from Lagos, Oyo, Osun, Kaduna, Kwara, as […]
Volvo Cars, the global premium mobility company, has expressed confidence that 2017 will be another great record year for it in terms of sales. The confidence of a great year ahead follows the sales record it broke in 2016 when it reported a third consecutive year of record sales, increasing 6.2 percent compared to 2015 […]
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, has announced its 2016 business results. Sales volume and operating profit declined from the same period last year due to high production cost caused by series of labour strikes and continued economic stagnancies in emerging markets. Hyundai Motor Company’s global sales totalled 4,857,933 units (Korea: 656,526 / overseas: […]
As Mercedes‑AMG improves E‑Class quality Weststar Associates Limited, Nigeria’s official representative of Fiat Chrysler and authorized General Distributor of Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and RAM, has concluded arrangements to unveil four models of Fiat in the country by May 2017. Managing Director of the company, Mr Mirko Plath, disclosed the plan recently during a media […]
Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria), the largest helicopter operators in the country, is to acquire two more Embraer 145 aircraft to boost its newly launched scheduled flight operations in the country. The airline has also diversified into fixed-wing operations to provide services for affluent clients. The airline which commenced fixed-wing operations on December 5, 2016, is geared […]
Daily Times aviation correspondent, Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo has won the best ‘Aviation Reporter’ of the year award 2016 for Print. The awards which was organised by the Nigerian Aviation Awards (NIGAV) took place at the Welcome Centre and Hotels in Lagos, was well attended by aviation stakeholders across the country. NIGAV awards is the most prestigious […]