AMERICAN aircraft manufacturing giant, Boeing Company, has reinstated its unalloyed support to Nigeria’s Air Peace, in view of the critical role the airline plays in the development of aviation industry in Nigeria..
The Senior Organisational Consultant and Programme Manager, at the Boeing Global Learning Institute, Harry Magui on behalf of Boeing made the pledge when a delegation from The Boeing Company and Cranfield University, a specialist postgraduate university in the UK visited Air Peace to conduct a five-day in-person classroom training, to fortify safety culture and operational excellence at Air Peace Limited.
According to Magui: “Air Peace has been phenomenal in advancing the aviation industry in Nigeria, so we are here to support them to harness more opportunities in the future with the Advanced Leadership in Safety Excellence Training for all its top leadership within the organization. We recognise your achievement and are proud of Air Peace.
“All airlines know, even more so Air Peace, that safety is the number one metric within this industry. Without safety, there can be no business in aviation and also, it is a very important metric not just for the airline but also for regulators and the passengers.”
He assured that the leading global aerospace company will continue to collaborate with Air Peace in critical areas such as psychological safety, change management processes, safety leadership, crisis management and just culture.
Speaking in the same vein, Harrison Debrah, Global Safety & Regulatory Affairs, The Boeing Company, acknowledged the giant stride Air Peace has made in a very short time, promising that Air Peace will continue to be at the centre of Boeing Group’s vision for Nigeria and commended the Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, Dr. Allen Onyema for his resilience, tenacity and passion.
For Dr. Fabian Steinmann, Lecturer, Organisational Resilience and Change at Cranfield School of Management: “We are now here in Lagos, Nigeria together with Boeing delivering a course for Air Peace. Air Peace just celebrated their 10th Anniversary, so we are excited to engage wisdom and learn more about their operation because at Cranfield, we really care about the safety of the system, making it robust but also making it flexible to adapt to the ever-changing environment.”
Responding, the Air Peace Chairman, Dr. Allen Onyema thanked them for their kind words and noted that the management of Air Peace was looking forward to the Advanced Leadership in Safety Excellence training by The Boeing Company.
Onyema declared: “In Air Peace, safety is at the core of everything we do. We have a system of checks and balances in the system”.
He revealed that he has never used any other airline apart from Air Peace because of his trust in the safety and maintenance culture at Air Peace. The Air Peace Chairman explained that the airline encourages the non-punitive report, an indication that the Air Peace has adopted the Just Culture in the organisation.
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