Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace, yesterday recorded full load factor of 240 passengers on its inaugural flight from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to Guangzhou, China. This is also as the airline disclosed plans to code-share with Asian carriers to distribute passengers to other destinations outside Guangzhou, China. The airline operated the flight with […]
*Airfares to Nigeria Three-times Higher than What Obtains in Other Countries The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has disclosed that airlines unremitted revenues from Nigeria (known as blocked funds) has risen to $450 million, representing 25 per cent of the total amount of international carriers’ funds held back by central banks of many countries, put […]
Today makes it two weeks into the new year. That’s exactly the time the low season begins in domestic flight operations in Nigeria. After the hustle and bustle that characterised the Christmas holiday: the surging crowd of passengers at the airport terminals, the busy airspace hosting aircraft crisscrossing to land at various runways in the […]
The diplomatic row between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over flight operations may be coming to an end, as the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) has given Air Peace weekly flight slots in Dubai. In a letter by the DCAA, dated December 13, 2021, and addressed to Chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, […]
The British High Commission has announced that Nigeria and 10 other countries have been removed from UK’s red list from today, Wednesday 15, 2021, as Omicron becomes the dominant strain around the world. This was conveyed in a statement signed by the High Commission, saying that pre-departure tests and PCR testing measures on or […]
