Jamie Fly Aviation

NIGERIA: AIR PEACE  has pledged continuous seamless air travel with its project to connect more local, regional and international destinations with plans to strengthen its fleet with a Boeing 777 aircraft in its preparation to commence Guangzhou-China, Dubai, Mumbai, Atlanta, London and other long-haul routes. The carrier gave the assurance yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State when its Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Chief Allen Onyema was conferred with the award of “Aviation Man of the Year 2016” by ATQnews and Akwaaba African Travel Market. Speaking at the Rivers event tagged “Port Harcourt Bantaba”, Onyema also said that Air Peace which has added a Friday evening flight to its daily Lagos-Accra-Lagos route, would make Enugu the base of its Guangzhou-China operations. Air Peace, he said, had distinguished itself in the Nigerian aviation industry with its unrivalled on-time performance, safety and maintenance record. Responding to a question on the ownership of...

It is quite annoying for individuals to spend millions of Naira or thousands of dollars to train to become pilots only to go back home and be struggling to looking for work. I think it is high time every pilot most especially the unemployed ones fight for what they deserve. They cannot continue to be fighting to be slaves when they can be living like kings in their own country. A Nigerian pilot invests about 12m to train and ends up competing with foreigners for jobs that should ordinarily be his. How did they get to this state? first of all the airlines argue that they are looking for experience and the Nigerians do not have it. That's on one angle. Another angle boils down to the hard reality that is tormenting the Nigerian airline industry. The Nigerian airline industry is relatively small and struggling. The average fleet size of Nigerian airlines ranges between 2 to 5 aircraft. Only Arik, Aero and Air Peace have a fleet of 26, 16 and 10 aircraft. The small fleet size of th...