Nigeria’s leading flag carrier by fleet size and service delivery, Air Peace has listed some of its achievements in 2017 to include rescuing the Nigerian aviation industry and giving air travellers even as it has positioned itself to end air travel woes on most destinations in the country and the West Coast of Africa by becoming the preferred alternative on key international routes in 2018.
The assurance was giving at the airline’s end-of-year management session held on December 27 in Lagos to review its flight operations in 2017 by Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema.
Commenting on the carrier’s operations in 2017, Onyema insisted that the airline deserved commendations for rescuing the Nigerian aviation industry and giving air travellers hope in the period under review.
He said he was quite satisfied that Air Peace was able to expand its fleet to 24 aircraft despite the economic downturn the country and its aviation sector experienced in 2017.
He attributed the airline’s success in the three years of its existence to the unflinching support of the flying public and the quality leadership of its management team.
The Air Peace boss said the airline would remain grateful to its customers for their patronage over the years, urging the flying public to continue to trust the carrier’s services. Air Peace, he assured, would continue to strive to sustain its uncompromising approach to safety, prioritisation of the comfort of its customers and job creation.
The airline, Onyema however said, still had a lot of grounds to cover in its vision to transform air travel experience in Nigeria, the West Coast of Africa and the Dubai, Guangzhou-China, London, Houston, Mumbai and Johannesburg routes.
He charged the management to brace up for the challenge of implementing the airline’s plans to deepen air connectivity on many routes in the northern part of Nigeria, which included Kano and Yola as well as other domestic routes.
He, however, regretted that industrial unrest by Air Traffic Control in Senegal compelled airline to suspend the launch of its Freetown, Banjul and Dakar operations planned for December 15, 2017.
Onyema assured that the carrier would soon announce a new date for the launch of the three suspended West Coast routes.
He said the airline, which commenced flight operations to Accra-Ghana on February 16, 2017, was determined to expand to about nine destinations on the West Coast of Africa.
The airline, he added, was awaiting the delivery of the two Boeing 777 it recently acquired to start its flight operations to Dubai, Guangzhou, London, Houston, Mumbai and Johannesburg.
