Air Peace unveils prospective expansion plans for 2018

From Suleiman Idris, Lagos

Nigeria’s indigenous leading carrier, Air Peace says it will aggressively pursue linking hitherto underserved destinations in Nigeria and the West Coast of Africa and offer the flying public a preferred alternative on some key international routes in 2018.
The plan, it says form parts of the airline’s prospect for the new year as it aim to tackle air travel woes suffer by travellers mostly from Nigeria.
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema while speaking at the airline’s end-of-year management session held in Lagos to review it flight operations in 2017 assured that the airline will contribute meaningfully to the industry.
He said the airline expanded its fleet to 24 aircraft despite the economic downturn in 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 carrier’s management to brace up for the challenge of implementing the airline’s plan to deepen air connectivity on many routes in the North of Nigeria, including Kano and Yola, and other domestic routes.
He regretted that industrial unrest by Air Traffic Control in Senegal compelled Air Peace to suspend the launch of its Freetown, Banjul and Dakar routes planned for December 15, 2017.
Onyema, however, 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.