Air Peace Ups The Innovative Ante By Picking International Passengers From Their States, Tough Move For Foreign Airlines To Match
The Oasis Reporters
April 18, 2024
When Allen Onyema the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Peace Airlines moaned on television about the conspiracies of foreign airlines to suddenly drop ticket costs beyond profit margin levels to frustrate his airline out of business, many Nigerians urged him to innovate and hang on in there.
Well he did.
Here’s a post by Innovation guru and internationally celebrated Engineering professor, Ndubuisi Ekekwe:
“That is a massive disintermediation for foreign airlines on the Lagos-London route.
Yes! If you live in Owerri, Asaba, etc, you can pay to fly to London from those cities instead of beginning the flight in Lagos. The implication is massive as Air Peace will handle your international sized bags in that local flight. Today, you would have made a separate plan for the bags.
Sure, the fees will be different, if starting from Lagos, and that is fine.
The BA of this world may be waiting for you in Lagos without knowing that you are already on your international flight journey from Owerri, Asaba, etc. Air Peace is serving!”.
Fasrel says this is why he loves competition. “It brings creativity and opens up more opportunities for the consumers. Well done, our own Air Peace”.
Eze Arinze calls this a good one. “But we should also look at the bigger picture: so why can’t we have a Direct Flight from Enugu to London or Owerri to London ? We should also be asking these questions”
Musty Says “This is what we are talking about, Air Peace needs not complain about the big guys in the aviation industry… Air Peace should use its home advantage very well….
We will flyairpeace. Buynaijatogrownaija”
Surprisingly, a Nigerian traveled all the way for five hours from Manchester to Gatwick Airport in London in England to board Air Peace.
He had other options, but out of patriotism and love for Nigeria, he chose Air Peace. That’s love for brotherhood. That’s sheer patriotism.
Mr. Idowu says: ‘If those other airlines want to peg their London route tickets as low as ₦1 return, I will still fly Air Peace because I know for a fact that bringing down their ticket fares for the London route is just a mere conspiracy theory. I live in Manchester and I had to travel 5 hours by road from Manchester to catch Air Peace from Gatwick to Lagos.
Despite the inconveniences, I am still saving over £400. I am sure Air Peace will plan connecting flights for passengers with time. Please, my brothers and sisters, do not relent.’’
OFN.
With the massive support from the home crowd and the fact that Air Peace can easily pick an Asaba based passenger on a local flight to Lagos that gets there and transforms into an international flight makes such integration between local and foreign flights possible. Besides, not every flier is enthused with the idea of grappling with the associated problems of Lagos and it’s internal traffic and accommodation struggles. This is thus going to be a win-win situation for Air Peace.
Innovation has brought this about. It increases the importance of local districts that are actually the feedstock that has made Lagos so super important.
Greg Abolo.
gregabolo@gmail.com
