Air Peace begins flights to Warri

Nigeria’s Air Peace airline has commenced flight operations between Lagos and Warri, in Delta State.

The airline’s inaugural flight which took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 on Friday, September 27, 2019, Lagos touched down at the Osubi Airport, Warri at 11.15pm.

The ERJ 145 aircraft piloted by Captain Crosby Otobo and Senior First Officer Usman were welcomed with a water guard salute by fire-fighters stationed at the airport.

Speaking on the development, the airline Chief Executive Officer, Mr Allen Onyema, said the move by the airline to extend its operations to Warri was part of the airline’s No City-Left-behind project.

Onyema who was represented by the airline’s Manager, Ground Operations, Mr Adeyemi Ayodeji said Warri was the 16th city the airline was operating into in Nigeria saying: “We want to assure our passengers that this is just the beginning. We have plans to introduce flights from Warri to Port Harcourt and also from Warri to Abuja”.

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Adeyemi who said the airline operates to five regional locations in West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal) and had on July 5, 2019, began flight operations to Sharjah- Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, added that the airline will soon commence flights into Mumbai in India and Guangzhou with China also coming on board as part of the airline’s expansion on the international routes with its fleet of B777 aircraft.

Receiving the airline’s officials at Warri include the Chairman, Osubi Community and the Community Secretary,  Mr Paul Erugbenu and Comrade Williams Eyarunu who thanked Air Peace for extending their operations to the airport.

Passengers onboard the inaugural flight that were gifted various items by Air Peace expressed delight with the development noting that it would make the route more competitive for the airlines thereby reducing airfares.