A furore has erupted in Nigeria over the ferry flight of Nigeria Air‘s first of three B737-800s provided by preferred bidder Ethiopian Airlines for the startup’s air operator certificate (AOC) audit.

The arrival of ET-APL (msn 40965) in Abuja from Addis Ababa on May 26 was met by a water canon salute and hailed by outgoing Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika on social media. “To Almighty God be all the glory. It has been a very long, tedious, daunting and difficult path,” he tweeted. The aircraft was already painted in Nigeria Air livery. ADS-B data…

Source: ch aviation
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