Nigeria’s largest airlines, Air Peace has announced that it will be launching flights to Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The flights will commence on July 5 and will be operated by one of the airline’s three recently delivered Boeing 777 aircraft.  The aircraft operating the flight will be one of the airline’s Boeing 777-200ERs, which were previously operated by Emirates. The aircraft is configured in three classes – First class, Business class and Economy class. The seats onboard the aircraft are the same as the previous Emirates seats, which means that first class is in a 2-2-2 configuration, while business class is 2-3-2 and economy is 3-3-3.  The Sharjah route is the first part of the airline’s ambitious expansion plan, which includes routes to Houston, London, Johannesburg, and Guangzhou. The route will operate from Lagos to Sharjah on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00 PM and arrive at 5:00 AM the next morning. The return flight will leave on Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur

Ethiopian Airlines Group has signed a partnership agreement valued at $500 million with Collins Aerospace. The 25-year agreement covers maintenance of heat exchangers, air management systems and fuel metering units on 60 De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 turboprops. Regarding the agreement, Ethiopian Group CEO, Mr.Tewolde GebreMariam remarked: “Within our strategic roadmap, Vision 2025, we envision making our MRO unit the leading service provider in Africa with revenue close to $600 million. "As our MRO continues to rapidly expand in line with our strategy, the new partnership enables us serve other African carriers with their Q-400 aircraft maintenance needs.” Ethiopian MRO unit has seen significant growth over the past decade and currently provides airframe maintenance on the Airbus A350XWB, Boeing 737/757/767/777/787, Bombardier Q100/Q200/Q300/Q400, Diamond DA40/42 NG and Cessna 172 series training aircraft, including heavy maintenance checks and modifications. The MRO

Turkish Airlines has added Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to its flight network as the global carrier’s 56th destination in Africa. It will operate four weekly reciprocal flights between Istanbul and Port Harcourt. During the press conference in International Port Harcourt Airport held for the inaugural flight, Turkish Airlines senior vice president of sales, Kerem Sarp said: “By starting our Port Harcourt flights, we added a new milestone to Turkish Airlines’ mission of growth in Africa. With Port Harcourt as our fourth destination in Nigeria, Turkish Airlines continues to be the bridge between cultures. We are happy to add Port Harcourt to our flight network, and enable our passengers in here to experience a seamless flight journey with Turkish Airlines privilege.” *  required fie Are you human? what is 4 + 4?  *  

Bombardier  made a name for itself in the U.S. regional airline industry in the late 1990s when it began delivering the first CRJ-100 regional jets to Cincinnati-based Comair Airlines. The entry of regional jets to the U.S. airline marketplace spelled the death of most 19 and 30-seat regional turboprops. Times have certainly changed some 20 years later as  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries  Tuesday announced its acquisition of Bombardier's regional jet business for $550 million, as well as the assumption of some $200 million of the Canadian aircraft builders liabilities. For now, Bombardier will continue building new RJs in Canada to fulfill the backlog of orders on hand. Mitsubishi has also expressed interest in taking on the sales and support roles for Bombardier's RJ series. This deal pretty much removes Bombardier from the commercial aircraft side of the industry. Bombardier signed a joint venture in late 2017 with Airbus for the C-series, now known as the A220

Seattle based commercial aircraft manufacturer Boeing has just delivered the last of its 737 Next Gen aircraft to Japan’s Skymark Airlines. Skymark Ailines get the last ever Boeing 737NG. Photo: Skymark Airlines The final delivery of this epic airplane sees the end of a production run for Boeing that lasted 22 years. During this period the world’s largest commercial aircraft manufacturer produced more than 7,000 units according to  Airway1. The end of the 737 Next Gen saw the final aircraft roll out of the Renton, Washington factory where it went through its test flights before leaving Boeing Field for Japan. Destined to be delivered to Skymark Airlines, the final 737-800 was purchased by BOC Aviation leasing group, who then passed it on to their Japanese customer. This latest delivery to BOC also ends one of Boeings longest-running contracts which began 18 years ago. Since placing their first order, BOC has received 209 aircraft, of which 161were 737-