NIGERIA: Air Peace Airlines’ Chief Executive Officer Allen Onyema has revealed that the airline is prepared to start flights to New York and Houston by the end of 2024 and also offer flights from Abuja to London.
He announced this in an interview with Arise Television on Monday, reports The Nation.
The airline’s CEO said the company is in the process of acquiring more aircraft for this purpose.
Onyema said Air Peace is prepared to take on more flights, adding that seven flights were going into Gatwick Airport from Nigeria daily.
According to him, “We are doing seven daily flights into Gatwick. Nigeria has a balance of about fourteen to do. We are ready, if the government gives us Abuja-London, I will do it, because we are expecting more aircraft into the country purchased by Air Peace. If we get it, we will do it.
“Like, we are planning to hit New York or Houston towards the end of the year, because we are bringing in more 777s. As I speak to you, my staff, they’re in California, the engineering technical services department;
“…they’re in California inspecting some three 777s we want to acquire, we want to buy. So, if we could get them in the next two or three months, then of course, we are good to go anywhere,” he added.
Onyema also expressed some of the struggles the airlines faced in trying to achieve the long-awaited Lagos-London flights.
He said: “You suffer what I call both internal and external conspiracies. It took us seven years. We got the designation I think about six and a half years ago to go into London. Since then, it has been Cat-and-Mouse game.
