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...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - German airline Condor has launched nonstop flights from Frankfurt to Cape Town twice weekly. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - African aviation expert Nick Fadugba has advised the Nigerian government to consolidate rather than proliferate airlines in the country, amid reports that the government is planning to float a new national carrier. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Dutch airline KLM resumed flights to Zimbabwe Tuesday, 13 years after the carrier pulled out of the country. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South African Airways (SAA) has grounded all its flights to and from North America ahead of Hurricane Sandy, which is heading towards the eastern board of the United States. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has beefed up security at major international airports across the country following a recent scare involving a domestic airliner. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governor Danbaba Suntai of Nigeria's northern Taraba state and five of his aides survived a plane crash in Yola, capital of Adamawa state also in the north, on Thursday night, according to the Ministry of Aviation. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Air Zimbabwe said Thursday it would resume domestic and regional flights next month, after resolving some of the financial and logistical difficulties which prompted it to suspend operations two years ago. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Namibian airline, Air Namibia, will soon launch direct flights from Windhoek, the Namibian capital, to Ondjiva, the capital of Cunene Province in Angola, according to the airline's representative in Angola, Marisa de Almeida.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation on Tuesday dismissed as hoax, stories that made the rounds early in the day, of a bomb scare on an Arik Airline flight travelling from Maiduguri, capital of Borno State in north Eastern Nigeria, to Abuja, the Nigerian capital city .Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A Tanzanian airline said on Monday it will start flights to Zimbabwe in December, plying the Harare-Dar es Salaam route three times a week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Management of Nigeria's second largest domestic airline, Aero Contractors, said Wednesday that a faulty Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) forced one of its aircraft to make an emergency landing at the main gateway Murtala Mohammed International Airport in the commercial city of Lagos on Monday night. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An aircraft operated by Nigeria's domestic IRS Airline hit a truck as it taxied for take-off at the country's main gateway Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos Wednesday, but none of the 91 passengers on board was injured, the airline said. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Mozambique's national airline, LAM, said Monday it would resume flights to Harare at the end of the month following steady economic recovery in Zimbabwe. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The embattled Chief Executive Officer of South African Airways (SAA) Monday announced she was resigning, just days after government confirmed that government had granted the national carrier a US$568 million bail-out. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Precision Air, Tanzania’s only airline of choice, recorded a good performance in the 2011/12 financial year despite the turbulent economic situation that affected air transport globally during the period, the airline’s chief executive, Alfonse M. Kioko, said here Wednesday. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Canadian aircraft make Bombardier is to invest US$200 million on a manufacturing unit in Casablanca, Morocco's economic hub, in January 2013. Full text...