Air Peace Airline, has started direct scheduled commercial flights into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In a press statement by the spokesman of the airline, Stanley Olisa, the inaugural flight was operated with one of the airline’s B777s, from Kano at 23:22hrs with 231 passengers.
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According to the statement, the Emir of Kano, HRH Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, lauded the airline for always blazing the trail in Nigeria’s aviation industry.
LEADERSHIP reports that Air Peace, before now, has been operating charter flights to Saudi Arabia, airlifting Muslim pilgrims. But, the inaugural flight officially kicked off its scheduled operations into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Speaking during the inaugural flight operations, the Chairman of Air Peace, Dr Allen Onyema, described the entry into Jeddah as another milestone recorded in the annals of Nigeria’s aviation history.
He, however, noted that Jeddah is the airline’s sixth international destination in just nine years of launching commercial flight operations.