Nigerian new arrival FirstNation Airways has finally launched operations some seven months after taking delivery of its three Airbus A320s. A senior executive at Nigeria’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed to The HUB at this week’s African Airlines Association Annual General Assembly in Marrakech, Morocco that the airline inaugurated scheduled services on the domestic route between Lagos and Abuja on November 3, having received regulatory approvals just a week earlier.

FirstNation made its initial application for its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) in April last year and it has taken 18 months for it fulfill the enhanced regulatory requirements of the NCAA since it attained US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Category 1 status.

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