The chairman and chief executive officer of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema has said that the carrier is championing seamless air connectivity in Africa to ensure the economic growth of the continent and ease travel challenges.
Onyema who stated this at the launch of the airline’s Abuja, Lagos and Accra to Monrovia, and Abuja to Accra services recently said Air Peace will prove its mettle the project to link African nations and connect them with the rest of the world through its flights to Accra, Freetown, Banjul, Dakar and Monrovia.
The chief executive who spoke through the airline’s corporate communications manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah said the carrier was gradually re-writing the negative narrative about regional flight operations in West Africa.
He assured that the no-city-left-behind project would unlock the economies in Africa through air connectivity.
He also said the launch of the Monrovia service would expanded the airline’s regional operations to five routes.
“The launch is a pleasing consolidation of our efforts to unlock the economies of Africa, offer air travellers on business and leisure trips seamless connectivity as well as create jobs for people.
“We began our intervention in the air travel difficulties of the West Coast of Africa with the inauguration of Lagos-Accra service in February 2017. A year later in 2018, we deepened our presence in the region with the addition of Freetown, Banjul and Dakar to our route network.
“The addition of Monrovia to our route network is a fitting response to the yearnings of the flying public for the Air Peace experience. The launch of Monrovia brings our regional destinations to five. We are connecting Monrovia from Abuja and Lagos through Accra. Shortly, we hope to add more destinations to our regional route map.
“Our goal is to build a solid base to link African nations and connect the continent to the rest of the world by air. With our expanded fleet of 24aircraft comprising Boeing 737, 777; Embraer 145 and Dornier Jets, we are set to soon begin flights to many international destinations including Dubai, Sharjah, Guangzhou- China, London, Houston, Mumbai and South Africa. There is no doubt we mean business at Air Peace,” he said.
For her part, the deputy managing director for technical services, Liberia Airport Authority, Ms. Paula Fares Harvey saluted the airline for the Monrovia service describing it as a “great milestone” in the airline’s effort to connect Africa by air.
“It’s good for you, it’s good for us in Liberia at this time,” she said.
