Regional connections: Air Peace restores Banjul, Dakar flights

Air Peace has announced the resumption of flights into Banjul in Gambia and Dakar in Senegal on July 23, 2021, to provide more options for regional connectivity.

The spokesperson of the airline, Stanley Olisa, who made the announcement in a news release issued to reporters on Wednesday, revealed that Banjul and Dakar flight services will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

According to him, we are glad to let the flying public know that we are reinstating our Lagos-Banjul-Dakar flight operations to offer more regional connectivity while our daily Gombe flights from Lagos and Abuja will be launched on August 9, 2021.

“Dakar and Banjul routes will be operated with our ultramodern Embraer 195-E2 aircraft, and we shall resume more routes and increase frequencies to other destinations as we take delivery of more brand new E195-E2s as well as other aircraft undergoing maintenance abroad”, Olisa stated.

Olisa, who said that customers can now book for the resumed routes on the airline’s website- flyairpeace.com or its mobile app restated Air Peace’s resolve to continue providing peaceful, strategic, and affordable connections, while observing the highest standards of safety.

It can be recalled that Air Peace suspended its regional routes consequent upon the outbreak of COVID-19 and the lockdown that ensued last year. But the airline is now resuming these routes, the first being Accra which was restored in March 2021.

Air Peace currently services 17 domestic routes, 5 regional routes, and 2 international destinations, including Johannesburg, while it boasts of a mixed fleet of 28 aircraft, the latest being three brand new 124-seat capacity E195-E2 jets

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.