Nigeria’s leading carrier, Air Peace, on Saturday, November 26, 2022, took delivery of two new Airbus 320 aircraft, bringing to 10 the number of Airbus aircraft in its rapidly expanding fleet.
The airline broke the news over the weekend via its official Twitter handle.
It said: “We’ve just received 2 new Airbus 320 aircraft, bringing to 10 Airbus in our fleet.”
The Allen Onyema-led company said further that “these new aircraft will help in strengthening our operations as the festive period approaches while supporting new connections & increased frequencies on specific routes.”
The latest acquisitions are in sync with the airline’s determination to continue providing peaceful and strategic network connections, in line with its no-city-left-behind mantra, which the airline is aggressively implementing by connecting Nigerians seamlessly to other parts of the world and deepen socio-economic ties between Nigeria and other countries.
“Air Peace is unflinchingly committed to reducing the air travel burden of Africans, and we will continue to grow our route network as well as modernise our fleet strategically. Air Peace has accomplished so much in just seven years of operation, as we now have a network of twenty domestic routes, seven regional routes and two international destinations, including Dubai and Johannesburg, which we launched in 2019 and 2020 respectively”, the airline said in a statement earlier this year.
It will be recalled that last month, as part of ensuring the ease of travel, the airline and Kalabash, a new entrant into the rapidly expanding BNPL fintech space, launched a product dubbed “Pay Small Small™, which allows all passengers to enjoy great travel deals and prices by paying as little as 25 percent of the total cost as a down payment to lock in travel fares and splitting the rest into convenient installments.
The parties described the product as a flexible travel payment plan that allows customers to lock down great travel deals and that its installment options allow customers to plan their travel from 24 hours to 6 months in advance. Customers who book ahead of time can take advantage of lower fares. Checkout is simple, and no credit checks are required because all customers have access to the payment plan.
Similarly, Air Peace and underwriter, AIICO Insurance Plc, entered a partnership to provide cover for Air Peace passengers to enable such customers enjoy a more relaxed travel experience with the assurance that inconveniences suffered because of unforeseen flight cancellation and delays, missing or delayed baggage shall be compensated.
The agreement between the organisations brought innovation to the aviation industry through embedded insurance that meets customers’ needs.
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