Air Peace Airline has announced that due to the overwhelming demand and interest on its London route, the airline has decided to increase the capacity on the capacity on the route.
“This means that more seats are now available. Air Peace would like to thank the Nigerian population both in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom for their support.
“We do not take it for granted, and we would be doing our best to make the whole country proud,” the airline said in a statement.
Stanley Olisa, spokesperson for Air Peace explained to BusinessDay that the airline increased capacity by opening more bookings to accommodate passengers that would want to book months ahead.
“What we did was to open more bookings for more months. We noticed that people were complaining that they were not able to book ahead of time. So we had to make more seats available for months ahead” Olisa said.
He however mentioned that the management of Air Peace may decide to increase frequencies soon depending how demand rise on the route.
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.
