Dana Air Partners Bi-Courtney On Child Education

Dana Airline has ex
tended the focus of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to the area of child education in partnership with Bi-Courtney  Aviation Services Limited (BASL) as they took pupils on an educational excursion of airport facilities that include having a first hand experience of how an airplane works.
The week long expedition programme saw the airline open its aircraft doors to over 500 pupils drawn from various schools across Lagos State.
Welcoming the pupils to the aircraft provided by Dana Air for the expedition purpose, the chief pilot of the airline, Captain Segun Omale expresse happiness that Dana Air is once again leading in the drive to impact on the lives of children.
Captain Omale said that Dana Airline identified with all global and local initiatives to improve the education pursuit of children.
“We are a caring airline that will continue to pay serious attention to issues that concern proper education of the future generation and our commitment to take the children on this all important excursion is anchored on our firm belief that a well – informed child represents hope for the future of mankind as information drives the development of any nation”, he said.
He added that Dana Air, through its Kidz Fly programme, has always given children the chance to be ferried from one state to another aboard an aircraft.
Through the airline’s charitable trust, the Sri Sai Vandana Foundation (SSVF), Dana Air, has been fulfilling its corporate social responsibility with an in-flight envelope donation programme which has helped to raise millions of naira for the National Sickle Cell Centre in Lagos since 2009, as well as involment in the Autism awareness drive.
Dana Air is the only domestic airline that has successfully undergone an operational audit conducted by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Flight Safety Group in partnership with their foreign partners. The airline currently operates daily flights form Lagos to Abuja and Port Harcourt as well as Port Harcourt to Abuja.