LAGOS – The economy class ticket seats of Air Peace flight to London from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos are fully booked for the next 60 days, Mrs. Toyin Ola­jide, the airline’s Chief Oper­ating Officer (COO) has said.

This is as Nigerian travel­lers on the Lagos-London route, including a travel agent compa­ny, have commended the airline for its decision to start flight services to European countries over three months ago.

Speaking with Daily Inde­pendent in an interview in La­gos, Olajide observed that the airline had faced numerous challenges on the route, but ex­pressed delight that the carrier had provided Nigerians with an alternative choice.

Olajide further assured that Air Peace would continue to provide travellers on the lu­crative and competitive route.

According to her, its Sun­day’s flight of June 30, 2024, was fully booked in the econ­omy class seats, while 41 seats in its business class of 42 were equally occupied.

She, however, regretted that its system did not advertise its first-class seats, an error that had been corrected by the man­agement.

Besides, she explained that Nigerians flying from the Unit­ed States to the United King­dom book Air Peace to Lagos, thereby taking advantage of the cheap US-Europe cheap flights.

She stated that by doing so, the travellers on the US-UK-Ni­geria routes save a lot of money, which they would have spent on direct US-Nigeria flights.

She added that Chinese citizens residing in Nigeria, fly Air Peace to London and connect China Southern Air­line to China in a bid to reduce airfares.

She said: “But our system did not advertise our first-class seats, an error, which has been corrected. So, what it means is that we recorded a very high load factor, only the 12 seats in the first class and one busi­ness class seat; that is, 13 seats were empty out of the 274 seats capacity aircraft. We thank Ni­gerians. We appreciate the fact that they are happy with the airline.