As coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic takes a its tolls on airlines globally, Air Peace said it has taken measures to address the adverse effects of the virus.
which has affected passenger travel and resulted to over 9, 000 deaths globally.
The airline’s Chief Executive Officer, Mrs. Toyin Olajide said in a statement on Thursday that the carrier had taken the decision to cut down its flights following a tremendous decline in passenger traffic.
“Air Peace, as a result of the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic on passenger traffic, has today taken the hard decision to downsize our flight operations in order to cut the mounting costs occasioned by the pandemic,” said Olajide.
She stated that the airline will suspend its operations to Dakar-Senegal and Monrovia-Liberia and cut down its Freetown-Sierra Leone operations and Banjul-Gambia operations to one flight a week.
She also said the airline would reduce its Lagos-Accra operations to two daily flights daily and suspend Abuja-Accra service.
“On the domestic scene, we are reducing our frequencies while at the same time, restructuring our operations by deploying our choppers to more airports.
“Our international operations into Dubai through Sharjah International airport shall be suspended from next week as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has shut its airports to nationals from other countries including but not limited to Nigeria,” she added.
