Ekeomah Atuonwu
The national airline of Nigeria, Air Peace, has announced intentions to start direct flights from Lagos to Mumbai, India, and Guangzhou, China, in July.
The airline has announced that similar international operations would start on routes to Israel. The Federal Government gave the airline access to a variety of routes before the COVID-19 epidemic broke out, including the Asian lines.
Stanley Olisa, a spokesman for Air Peace, said the airline’s aim to effortlessly connect Nigerians to other areas of the world and strengthening global socio-economic linkages was the driving force behind the additional routes.
The airline will begin its first once-weekly route to China on July 13, 2022, and will begin twice-weekly flights to India later this month with the aim of eventually increasing frequency as operations pick up steam.
He said that the airline has traveled to China and India before. In the past, Air Peace has run a number of special/evacuation flights into Guangzhou and Mumbai. Consequently, we are highly used to the airspace. Tel Aviv, Israel, launch preparations are likewise well under way.
Olisa hinted that the airline also has two other African destinations in the works: Malabo in Equatorial Guinea and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Olisare affirmed the airline’s resolve to keep strengthening its strategic network connections in accordance with its no-city-left-behind mantra.
Recall that Air Peace started flying to Niamey in March 2022, and a few months before, it began flying to Douala from Lagos and Port Harcourt.
The airline has the largest fleet in West and Central Africa, with over 30 contemporary, mixed-fleet aircraft, including five brand-new Embraer 195-E2s.
