Airline Fleet & Routes

AIR PEACE on Sunday took delivery of its fifth Embraer 145, assuring that the development has deepened its capacity to relaunch its flights to Sokoto and start its Katsina service. The carrier, which had earlier received four of the six 50-seater Embraer 145 aircraft it recently acquired, said its goal …

Advises investors to stay true to investment purposes FOLLOWING Nigeria’s inability, over the decades, to adequately reciprocate most of its air services agreement, flag carrier, Air Peace has set the stage to close some of the gaps with its acquisition of four Boeing 777 aircraft and newly ordered Boeing 737-Max. …

OVERLAND Airways, one of Nigeria’s leading scheduled and charter airlines, will inaugurate its Lagos-Cotonou-Niamey flights on October 3, 2018. Overland Airways’ Lagos-Cotonou-Niamey flights will operate on Wednesdays and Fridays. The flights will depart Lagos at 19:00, arrive Cotonou at 19:30 for a brief stop-over and depart Cotonou at 20:00 to …

AIR PEACE has stated plans to restart its daily Lagos-Asaba-Lagos flight operations on October 8. The airline, which pulled out of the route more than two years ago due to safety concerns with respect to the runway of the Asaba Airport, said it would also add Abuja-Asaba-Abuja flights to the …

FROM September 13th to 27thSeptember 2018, Emirates is offering Nigerian travellers the opportunity to visit Dubai, available at a very special offer for Economy and Business Class round-trip, a free third piece of luggage. Under the special offer, an Economy Class ticket from Lagos to Dubai costs USD $799 and …

EMIRATES Airline, will be upgrading the aircraft used to operate the Abuja route to a Boeing 777-300. Extended Range (ER) from the 777-300 classic, with effect from tomorrow 15th September 2018. With this development, the EK785 and 786 will be on the Dubai-Abuja-Dubai routes four times in a week. Regional …

AIR PEACE on Thursday signed an agreement with Boeing for the acquisition of 10 brand new 737 MAX 8 aircraft, making history as the first airline in West Africa to add the equipment to its fleet. Air Peace already operates Boeing 737s and Embraer 145s on its domestic and regional …

Airline’s COO says there is no Ethiopian connection DANA AIR has said that its aircraft lease partnership with ASKY is one that has a potential to transcend into something deeper, like codeshares but in no way is it planning to give the Togolese carrier, or any other the opportunity to …

ARIK AIR has announced the diversion of all its flights arriving into Warri to Benin following the closure of Osubi Airport Warri by Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). NAMA in a circular issued on August 29, 2018 said it was withdrawing Air Traffic Services (ATC) from Osubi Airport from 0000 …

DUE to its partnership with Asky, Dana Air has introduced a Boeing 737-700 aircraft to its fleet to operate its ‘early bird’ flights between Lagos and Abuja from 10th September, 2018 The airline in a statement by its Media and Communications Manager, Kingsley Ezenwa, said ‘we are pleased to announce …