Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria is finalising the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) with Israel that will result in the commencement of direct flights from Nigeria to the Middle East nation before the next Christian pilgrimage scheduled for October, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Plaisance, Mauritius (PANA) – Two of the five aviation hangers, recently build at the Mauritius international airport, became operational Monday, PANA reported here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A rainstorm on Monday night cut off public power supply to Nigeria's main gateway Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the economic capital city of Lagos, delaying departing and arriving flights, according to the spokesman for the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Yakubu Dati. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – At least 30 people are feared dead when a plane on a domestic flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) crashed on Monday in the eastern city of Goma, official sources told PANA in Kinshasa. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya Airways has announced the expansion of its global network through a new code-sharing agreement with Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national airline. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Puma Energy company has launched a P27 million (US$3 million) aviation fuelling facility in Botswana’s resort town of Maun. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Public workers in Malawi, on strike to press for a 67% pay hike, have threatened to close the country's airports should government not bow down to their demands.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has launched live television viewing as part of its on-going efforts to provide the latest in on-board entertainment. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released the report of eight air crashes dating back to 2005, with a number of safety recommendations to prevent a recurrence. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian National Airline, Air Mauritius, Thursday said that it made a net profit of 6.1 million euros for the third quarter (October-December) of 2012 during the 2012/2013 financial year, sources close to the airline told PANA here. Full text...

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – Guinea’s Army Chief of Staff, General Souleymane Kelefa Diallo, was killed on Monday when a helicopter he was flying in crashed near Monrovia’s military airport, official sources told PANA here. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – A Mauritanian court Friday issued an international arrest warrants against three officials of the Mauritania-based private airline, “Mauritanie Airways”, Judiciary sources told PANA on Friday. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – An light aircraft crashed on Monday afternoon as it was taking off from the Diori Hamani international airport of Niamey, killing all three people on board. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The number of passengers carried by Angolan Airline, TAAG, increased from 1.050 million in 2011 to 1.2 million in 2012, the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Pimentel Araújo, said on Friday.Full text...

Le Morne, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam, on Friday said the country's national carrier, Air Mauritius, was looking for a strategic partner to improve its performance. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Airlines, the first and only airliner in Africa to operate the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Thursday grounded the aircraft over safety concerns, PANA reported, quoting a statement from airline. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Thursday issued a one-week ultimatum to all airlines with abandoned and unserviceable aircraft at any of the nation's major airports to remove them Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Domestic and international flights out of Nigeria's main gateway Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the country's commercial city of Lagos were grounded for at least three hours on Friday due to the harmattan haze that is blanketing the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - About 13.4 million passengers travelled through Nigeria's airports in 2012, compared to 11 million travellers in 2011, representing an increase of 2.4 million passengers, according to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's largest domestic airline, Arik Air, and Cote d'Ivoire's new carrier Air Cote d'Ivoire, are exploring a partnership that could help resolve the challenges of intra-Africa connections. Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) – Civil aviation officials from four Central and West African countries on Monday began a training programme in the Cameroonian political capital, Yaoundé, a US embassy official in Cameroon told PANA.Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Dutchman Matthijs Boertien has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cameroon’s national airline, Cameroon Airlines Corporation (CAMAIR-CO), by a presidential decree published Thursday by the state-run television CRTV. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Dana Air resumed flight operations Thursday, six months after one of its planes crashed on the outskirts of the country's commercial city of Lagos, killing 159 people. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenya Airways (KQ) aircraft flying to Cairo, Egypt, has made an emergency landing in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, after encountering engine trouble, the airline's chief executive said Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With many plane crashes yet to be conclusively investigated, Nigeria's aviation authorities Friday announced a plan to establish an accident investigation laboratory in the capital city of Abuja at a cost of US$5.5 million. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After half a decade, lighting was restored to the runway at the domestic wing of Nigeria's main gateway Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the commercial city of Lagos Tuesday, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) said. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has welcomed the aviation sector reforms embarked upon by Mauritanian authorities which culminated in the removal of the north west African nation from ICAO's "safety watch list". Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The powerful vortex generated by the engines of a cargo plane Wednesday blew off part of the roof of the arrival hall at the main gateway Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, with the blown-off portion of the roof landing on 12 expensive cars parked nearby. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese military fighter aircraft crashed Wednesday at the Al Obeid airport in North Kordufan, central Sudan, killing the pilot, according to the Sudanese Army Spokesperson, Colonel Sawarmi Khalid Saad. Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) – Gabon has signed two separate air transport agreements with Luxembourg and France under which airlines from the two countries will operate flights to the Central African state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The remains of all six people, including a state governor, who died in Saturday's crash of a military helicopter in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region, have been retrieved, the Nigerian Navy said Sunday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Presidency has confirmed the death of Gov. Patrick Yakowa of northern Kaduna State, former National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen. Owoye Azazi and four others in Saturday's crash of a military helicopter in Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governor Patrick Yakowa of Nigeria's northern Kaduna state and former National Security Adviser (NSA) Owoye Azazi are feared to have died when a military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed in the oil rich Bayelsa state Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Dana Airline has begun payment of compensation to the families of the 159 people who died in the 3 June 2012 crash of its aircraft on the outskirts of the country's commercial city of Lagos, airline officials said Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African National Defence Force Thursday afternoon dismissed reports that former President Nelson Mandela's medical team had been on board a military aircraft which crashed in the Drakensberg mountain range near Ladysmith Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The wreckage of a missing military aircraft believed to be carrying 11 members of the Nelson Mandela medical team has been found in the Drakensberg mountain range, the South African National Defence Force said Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The regulatory Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Wednesday issued new Air Operator's Certificates (AOC) to Dana Air and Skyjet Aviation, paving the way for them to kick-start their operations. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) Tuesday said Nigeria lost 1,166 lives to 131 aircraft accidents between 1967 and 2012. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Rescuers from the Congolese Red Cross found seven more victims of the cargo plane, which crashed Friday evening in Makazou, south-west of Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, bringing the the death toll as at Saturday to 32. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A top Nigerian aviation official has asked cargo handlers at the nation's airports to be more security and safety conscious to prevent terrorists from infiltrating their ranks. Full text...

Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - None of the 25 passengers and four crew members aboard the Embraer 120 plane, operated by Comoran Airline Comores Inter Iles, was harmed when the plane crashed Tuesday off the coast of the capital, Moroni, aviation officials said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government is to assist domestic airlines to acquire airplanes, as part of efforts to salvage the ailing aviation sector, a top Nigerian aviation official said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A man suspected to be mentally unstable strayed into the runway of the domestic wing of Nigeria's main gateway Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos and narrowly escaped being crushed by a landing plane, the local Thisday newspaper reported Sunday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The fuel pipeline to South Africa's OR Tambo International Airport, Africa’s busiest, has been contaminated and rendered unfit for use by airlines, according to the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA). Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - One of the runways at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, was temporarily shut down Tuesday after one of the tyres of a plane about to take off exploded, causing the plane to catch fire. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's second largest domestic airline, Aero Contractors, has acquired two additional Boeing 737-400 aircraft, bringing its total fleet to 12, the company's publicists said in a statement Monday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The family of two South African men, who went missing on 28 October while flying over Mozambique, are still trying to locate them. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The Nigerien ministries of Foreign Affairs and Transport on Friday announced that Turkish Airlines will start operating the Istanbul-Niamey route from 15 December, according to an official statement issued here.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - All aircraft operated by domestic airlines in Nigeria are to be fitted with Automated Flight Information Reporting System, as part of efforts to ensure air safety in the country, according to the Director-General of the regulatory Nigerian Civil Aviation Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's low cost airline 1Time was Wednesday granted provisional liquidation by the high court in Pretoria. Full text...