Air Peace makes historic flight from Abuja to St. Kitts, expanding Africa’s global reach

On 12 June 2025, Air Peace deployed one of its Boeing 777 aircraft, which lifted off from Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and, ten hours later, touched down at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre—marking the first Nigerian dateline on St. Kitts & Nevis’s arrivals board.

The milestone service, arranged for a Pan-African business conference in the Eastern Caribbean, carried delegations from Nigeria, thereby underscoring the airline’s growing trajectory and strategic foray into the global market.

The St. Kitts & Nevis flight is the airline’s third foray into the Caribbean in five years. On 21 December 2020, the carrier operated an 11-hour flight from Lagos to Montego Bay, establishing the first nonstop link between Nigeria and Jamaica, and showcasing the long-range potential of Air Peace’s then-new triple-seven fleet. On 5 August 2023, another Boeing 777 carried investors and carnival-goers from Lagos to V.C.

Bird International Airport in Antigua & Barbuda, earning Air Peace the distinction of being the first Nigerian airline to land in the twin-island state.

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Now, with the 12 June 2025 service to St. Kitts & Nevis, the airline has completed a triad of firsts, establishing direct access to three key Caribbean territories.

The flight relied on one of Air Peace’s two Boeing 777 aircraft, which also sustain the airline’s daily Lagos–London Gatwick schedule launched on 30 March 2024—another historic achievement for a private Nigerian carrier.

Allen Onyema, Chairman and CEO, has hinted that more long-haul aircraft are on the way. In April 2024, he told Arise TV that the airline is finalising acquisitions that will underpin the Abuja–London route, as well as planned services to Houston and New York.

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.