Route expansion: Air Peace launches Douala, Ibadan routes in August

Air Peace would be receiving some of its aircraft from overseas maintenance and a brand new Embraer 195-E2 jet to boost operations

Air Peace, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier is commencing scheduled commercial flights from Lagos and Port Harcourt to Douala, the capital of Cameroon, on August 19, 2021.

This is as the airline is also set to launch the Abuja-Ibadan route on August 17.

This information was disclosed on Tuesday by Stanley Olisa, spokesperson of the airline who stated that the Douala route will operate three days weekly while the Ibadan route will be daily.

“These new routes will be operated with our ultramodern Embraer 195-E2 aircraft, and as we take delivery of more brand new E195-E2s as well as other aircraft undergoing maintenance abroad, we shall reinstate more routes and open up more connections,” he said.

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Olisa said customers can now book for the new routes on the airline’s website- flyairpeace.com or its mobile app.

He reiterated Air Peace’s resolve to continue providing peaceful and strategic connectivity, in line with its no-city-left-behind drive.

It can be recalled, that Air Peace recently resumed most of its regional routes that were suspended due to the virus outbreak and the lockdown that ensued last year.

The airline has restored its Freetown, Banjul, Dakar, and Accra services.

Air Peace currently services 17 domestic routes, five regional routes, and two international destinations, including Johannesburg. 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.