Emirates Airline Incurs $5.5bn Loss       Emirates Airline plunged into a $5.5 billion annual loss — its first in more than three decades — after the coronavirus pandemic devastated the aviation industry. The last time the airline reported a loss was in the 1987-88 financial year, when...

Nigeria Loses 20% Passenger Traffic Over Emirates, Etihad Exit       The suspension of Emirates Airlines and Etihad’s withdrawal from Nigerian airspace has cost the country, at least, a 20 per cent decline in international passenger traffic. The Economic Confidential learned that the decline was a major setback...

Emirates Refunds $1.4bn Unused Tickets     Emirates has returned over 1.4 billion dollars of unused tickets occasioned by the ban in air travel across many countries during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020. While that amount represents 90 per cent of the airline’s backlog,...

Emirates Initiates Discounted Fares for Nigerians Middle East major carrier, Emirates has initiated discounted fares for its Nigeria customers. The campaign commenced on January 7 and will last till January 21, 2019, while travel period is scheduled for January 13th to June 30th 2019. The airline said...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has summoned officials of Emirates Airlines to a meeting today, as it continues its investigations into allegations that the airline recently asked its passengers travelling out of Nigeria to pay for air tickets in the United States dollar. This is...