Air Peace wins West Africa’s best carrier 16 months after launch of regional services
Leading domestic airline, Air Peace has won the best airline in West Africa.
This is coming 16 months after the launch of its regional flight services and fleet expansion.
The airline won the Balafon Award for Best Airline of the Year in West Africa 2018, at the opening session of the 4th Accra Weizo, held in Accra, Ghana recently.
Business Hilights recalls that Air Peace launched its first regional service to Accra on February 16, 2017. It added Freetown in Sierra Leone, Banjul in The Gambia and Dakar, Senegal, to its regional route network a year after on February 19, 2018.
Organiser of the 4th Accra Weizo, Ikechi Uko, said Air Peace emerged winner of the Balafon Award because of the efficiency it had brought to bear on its regional operations. The Balafon Awards was instituted by ATQ News in 2009 to recognise individuals and organisations who have distinguished themselves in aviation, travel and tourism in West Africa.
Presenting the award, Uko said: “This award recognises you (Air Peace) as the Best Airline of the Year in West Africa 2018 for your outstanding activities in sustaining functional and efficient operations with expansions in West Africa, thereby adding value to the aviation and travel industry as your airlines continues to thrive in becoming a dominant face across West Africa.
“With growing routes in several countries in West Africa, Air Peace Airlines is playing a significant role in not only driving the aviation, travel and tourism agenda of your organisation and country and catalysing the growth of tourism in the sub region, but also helping forge ties between countries in West Africa and Africa with a view to enhancing regional tourism,” Uko said.
In an interview, Air Peace Corporate Communications Manager, Chris Iwarah, said the carrier was pleased that its intervention in fixing the challenges of air travel on the West Coast of Africa was yielding positive results.
According to him, Air Peace would deepen air connectivity in West Africa by launching its Monrovia service and linking it with its Accra, Abuja and Lagos operations in the next few weeks.
