Airline Fleet & Routes

AIR PEACE, in keeping with its no-city-left-behind vision, has announced that it will be launching scheduled commercial flights into Gombe from Abuja and also revealed plans to resume its Yola flight services. The airline’s Chief Operating Officer, Oluwatoyin Olajide, disclosed this in a news release shared with journalists on Sunday. Olajide stated that the decision to commence the Abuja-Gombe-Abuja route …

ARIK AIR has announced resumption of direct flights from the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos to the ancient city of Kano effective Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The airline will have three weekly flights will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The decision to reintroduce direct flights between Lagos and Kano was informed by the importance of both cities as centres of …

Plans to acquire 15 aircraft by 2022 AHEAD of plans to commence Phase 4 of its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) acquisition, Green Africa Airways which is working to finalize its certification is set to take delivery of two ATR72-600 aircraft to commence demonstration flights, the first set of 15 aircraft planned for operations by 2022. The airline unveiled two ATR …

ETHIOPIAN Airlines Group has announced that it has reached 91% On-Time Performance of all global flight departures for the last three months while the industry average stands around 85%. The airline has operated a total of 18,385 flights in January, February, and March in which it has scored 91% on-time departures. The airline said it has recognized from its customers’ …

FOLLOWING flight shortages to service the Easter season, Air Peace, Nigeria’s leading airline, has deployed one of its wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft to service the Enugu route. The airline has also increased flight frequencies to Owerri and Asaba. Spokesperson of the airline, Stanley Olisa,  who disclosed this today in a news release, stated that the jumbo, extra-comfy aircraft has been …

AIR PEACE has reaffirmed that it made a firm order of Boeing 737 Max, which recently was recertified to resume operation stating that new aircraft are part of its fleet renewal plan in the no distant future. Speaking at the delivery of its second brand new Embraer E195-2 in Abuja on Thursday, the Chairman and CEO of the airline, Allen …

DUE to passengers’ demand, come March 15, 2021, Air Peace will resume daily flight operations into Accra from its Lagos hub after it suspended that operation due to the COVID-19 pandemic that saw a lot of route suspensions This is just as the airline has expressed readiness to kick off scheduled flights into Ilorin from Abuja and Lagos. Spokesperson of …

AIR PEACE Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Olajide has said the E195-E2 will save the airline a lot of money on operating cost and is uniquely configured to offer a superior travel experience to the airline’s customers. Air Peace recently took delivery of the first brand new E195-E2 aircraft in Africa, from Brazilian aerospace conglomerate, Embraer; one of 13 E195-E2s …

UNITED Nigeria Airlines Chairman, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo has said that the airline has a long term plan of eventually plying the West Coast routes once it consolidates on its local routes from its hub in Enugu stressing that the airline has grandiose plans. This is just as he stated that there is a gap in the Nigerian aviation industry, one …

CHIEF Operating Officer of Air Peace, Mrs. Toyin Olajide has come out on behalf of the airline to state that the new COVID-19 flight protocols introduced by the Dubai Airport’s Operations Control Centre does not affect the airline’s Lagos-Sharjah flights Mrs. Olajide also explained that the COVID-19 rapid test at the airport four hours before departure does not affect the …