Air Peace has won the ‘Best Local Airline of the Year’ award in the domestic airlines category of the third edition of the Nigeria Travel Awards organised by Jumia Travel in Lagos.
The airline first won the award in 2017 and in the latest edition beat five other domestic carriers to get it for the second time.
Air Peace won with 44.7 per cent votes while the first runner up got 15.6 per cent of the total votes. Air Peace also picked the award for 2017.
The winner of the award was chosen by members of the public through a simple online poll that closed on March 6.
The airline with the highest number of votes picked the award.
Speaking at the awards ceremony in Lagos, the managing director of Jumia Travel Nigeria and Ghana, Ms. Omolara Adagunodo said the event was organised to celebrate and encourage those excellently distinguished themselves in their different spheres of operation.
Air Peace was represented at the awards by its corporate communications manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah, assistant customer relations manager, Mrs. Patricia Ebilah and corporate communications executive, Mr. Efe Osifo-Whiskey.
Speaking after receiving the award, Iwarah said “Air Peace is in the airline business to do Nigeria and Africa proud.”
The airline, he assured, would continue to sustain the high standards it was reputed for.
He said the carrier was poised to compete on the same platform with its counterparts across the world, especially with its soon-to-commence long-haul flights to Sharjah, Dubai, London, Houston, Guangzhou, Mumbai and Johannesburg.
He called on air travellers to continue to patronise Air Peace, assuring that the airline would neither disappoint them nor compromise the safety of its customers and crew.
