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  Photo: Simpleflying Air Peace, Nigeria’s largest airline, set a new flight time record on October 9, 2022 with its E195 E2 when it plied the Lagos-Johannesburg route in 6h 16min – a distance of 2,803 miles (4,511km), and the longest ever covered during a scheduled flight operated with an Embraer aircraft. According to Flightradar24 and as reported by Simpleflying, flight P47563 took off from Nigeria at 02:44 and arrived Johannesburg 5h 15min later (09:36 local time); but on return, P47564 departed Johannesburg at 12:09 and arrived Lagos at 17:25. Even though the flight departed Johannesburg 39min behind schedule, it arrived Lagos 55min late most likely due to headwind, as the same aircraft model is on record for completing a similar route in just 5h 33min. Experts opine that for the jet to have exceeded its real-world range, a payload restriction would have been required, unless of course, the aircraft was already relatively light with a reduced fuel burn rate, consequently gain...

Nigerian Air Management Agency (NAMA) is working to improve air-ground communication at airports across the country to ensure that upcoming airports especially, are equiped to communicate according to industry best practices. Speaking to journalists on Friday, the Acting Managing Director (MD) of NAMA, Mr. Matthiew Lawrence Pwajok said: "In the past, there were eight (08) satellite stations, but due to the fact that airports are coming up in Bayelsa, Anambra, Ekiti, Osun, Abeokuta and elsewhere, we have had to increase the number of satellite stations from eight (08) to fourteen (14), with some of them strategically installed in Benin, Enugu, Calabar, Jos, Kaduna, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Kano and Abuja to enhance communication between pilots and Air Traffic Controllers in the upper air space." The NAMA chief went on to reveal that the Agency has completely overhauled all the Landing Systems in over ten (10) airports, replacing them with brand new Doppler VOR navigational gear: ...

  African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has completed yet another edition of AFRAA Member Airlines CEOs Leadership Dialogues, this time with Ethiopian Airlines (ET) as focal point. The Dialogue, which is the 7 th held by the Association this year, took place at ET’s headquarters in Addis Ababa – Ethiopia between an envoy from AFRAA consisting of AFRAA Secretary General (SG), Mr. Abderahmané Berthé, Mr. Raphael Kuuchi, Director Government, Legal & Industry Affairs; and a delegation representing ET: Mr. Mesfin Tasew Bekele, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ethiopian Airlines (ET) Group; Mr. Girma Wake, ET’s Board Chairman among others. Top on the agenda were pressing issues such as currency repatriation; taxes and charges and implementation of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) – all of which were addressed in detail. According to the AFRAA boss, “We are pleased to have met Ethiopian Airlines – one of AFRAA’s founding member airlines - for the CEOs Dialogues. T...