West and Central Africa’s largest carrier, Air Peace, has secured the assurance of travel agents to work with it as it announced the commencement of direct flights from Lagos and Kano to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on October 31, 2023.
The airline got the assurance during an engagement session with travel agents in Kano on Tuesday, September 12, 2023.
Air Peace will operate the Lagos-Abuja and Kano-Jeddah flight three times weekly.
Speaking at the event, Vice-President, National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA), Northern Zone, Abdulrazak Ibrahim who commended Air Peace for the planned Jeddah route, reaffirmed the support of the association even as he urged the airline to keep blazing the trail in driving route connectivity across domestic and international cities.
In his statement at the event, Ground Operations Manager, Air Peace, Ayodeji Adeyemi, who represented the Chief Operating Officer, Mrs Oluwatoyin Olajide, stressed that the connectivity would be direct using the luxury Boeing 777.
Adeyemi thanked the travel agents and restated the airline’s commitment to working with them to ensure the new route is maximised to the benefits of all.
“In the first half of this year, we launched two major international destinations- Mumbai and Tel Aviv- and now we are gearing up for Jeddah next month. This does not only signal growth and expansion for the airline but it also demonstrates our firm commitment to reducing the burden associated with connecting cities with stopovers. We promise direct connectivity and this is evident in our international route network. We offer direct flights at affordable fares”, Adeyemi said.
Air Peace, which operated a special flight to Antigua and Barbuda in August 2023, with prospects of scheduled operations into the Caribbean nation, leads Nigeria’s aviation industry with a network of twenty domestic routes, eight regional and five international destinations.
