Airline, Air Peace on Thursday announced that it flew all 25 aircraft in its fleet on June 24 to different parts of the country as it braces for the resumption of domestic flights.
Spokesperson, Stanley Olisa in a statement issued on Thursday noted that the flights were aimed at ensuring that the aircraft were in good condition, having been grounded for close to three months, although they had been under storage maintenance.
“All the aircraft took to the skies flying to Abuja, Port Harcourt and back to Lagos without passengers,” the airline said in a statement by its spokesperson, Stanley Olisa.
He said the aircraft were brought out of storage and the pilots had been testing them, as all pilots and flight attendants had been retrained in line with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority directives.
On Air Peace’s readiness to resume regular flights, Olisa said, “We have been operating ‘special flights’ to local and international destinations, and we have more of such flights in the works.
“This accentuates our preparedness for operation restart as our pilots, cabin crew and engineers have been hands-on and are current. So, we are 100 per cent ready to resume.”
Meanwhile, Dana’s Media and Communications Manager, Kingsley Ezenwa, told PUNCH that the airline carried out a test flight with a newly acquired aircraft.
He said, “All through the lockdown, we had our engineers on ground to ensure proper storage and steady maintenance of our fleet for resumption at any time.
