- Air Peace Suspends Flight Operations to Dubai
Air Peace, Nigeria’s largest carrier, on Friday announced it has reduced flight operations in response to the global health crisis.
The management of the airline said the decision was after an emergency meeting to assess the operations of the airline amid the global pandemic crisis as declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Toyin Olajide, the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Air Peace, said the reduction followed “tremendous decline in passenger traffic and the need to cut costs.”
Air Peace announced it would suspend flight operations to Dubai through Sharjah Internation airport from next week after the middle east nation restricted flights from Nigeria and other nations.
She said: “Air Peace, as a result of the adverse effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on passenger traffic, has today taken the hard decision to downsize our flight operations in order to cut the mounting costs occasioned by the pandemic.”
She added that the airline would also be suspending its operations to Senegal, Liberia and reduce its operations to Sierra Leone and Gambia. Again, the airline would reduce flight to Accra, Ghana from Lagos to two flights per day and suspend flights from Abuja to Ghana.
“On the domestic scene, we are reducing our frequencies while at the same time, restructuring our operations by deploying our hoppers to more airports,” Olajide concluded.