April 19, 2018

Red Bull Can You Make It? Teams Make It to the Finish Line in Amsterdam

(AETOS Wire)-- After one week, 459,399 km and 20,658 traded cans later, the Red Bull Can You Make It? teams arrived in Amsterdam, celebrating the journey of a lifetime. 198 teams of the 200 crossed the finish line after being on the road without"...

April 18, 2018

Video: Severe turbulence causes mid-air panic on Buraq Air flight en route to Tripoli

A video shared online on Monday showed a state of horror experienced by passengers on board Buraq Air plane, which, according to activists, was about to fall during its trip from Benina Airport in Benghazi to Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport.

Buraq"...

April 11, 2018

Ghana Airports Company Limited to host Routes Africa 2018

Routes Africa, the intra-Africa route development forum, will return after a two year hiatus, due to demand from the route development community. The event, which will be the 12th Routes Africa, is the most long standing and established aviation forum bringing together leading airlines,"...

April 10, 2018

Benghazi's Benina airport to suspend work Tuesday

Benghazi-based Benina airport’s administration said it will suspend work starting Tuesday until a further notice.

The administration said that the reasons behind the suspension is the chaos and the troubles"...

April 10, 2018

Predator-Series Aircraft Pass Five Million Flight Hour Mark

(AETOS Wire) -- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) today announced that its Predator®-series family of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), encompassing Predator, Predator B, Gray Eagle, and Avenger® lines, has achieved a historic"...

April 9, 2018

Operators kick as Nigeria opens skies to more African airlines

The establishment of the Single African Air Transport Market has necessitated that Nigeria reviews its air transport agreements with member states, MAUREEN IHUA-MADUENYI writes

More airlines from African countries"...

April 7, 2018

Making Africa an Aircraft Maintenance Hub

Recently a conference on aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul in Africa was held in Cairo, Egypt, where industry experts lamented the absence of major maintenance facilities in most parts of the continent, describing it as a threat to air safety. Chinedu Eze takes a look at the resolutions"...

March 27, 2018

AerLine Holdings to Sell XTRA Airways

(AETOS Wire) -- AerLine Holdings has entered into negotiations to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary XTRA Airways. XTRA Airways has operated Boeing 737 aircraft in its charter fleet flying sports teams, rock bands, relief flights from Caribbean Islands including Puerto Rico, scheduled service between Saipan in the U.S. Mariana Islands and China, sub-service for tour operators within Europe, deportees for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and most recently supplying two highly customized executive 737 aircraft for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. XTRA Airways has an impeccable safety record, is one of the few charter carriers......