Air Peace to Launch Flights to Sharjah



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 Saturdays at 8:00 AM and arrive at Lagos at 1:00 PM. The new flight will cover a distance of around 3,700 miles and is expected to take between seven and eight hours in each direction. Passengers wishing to visit Dubai rather than Sharjah will be able to connect via a bus service to the larger city, although the flight will not operate to Dubai. The route is the first long-haul flight for the airline. The rest of the airline’s operations are limited to West Africa and are mostly Nigerian domestic flights. Other than the 777s that were recently delivered to fund expansion, the airline’s fleet consists of Boeing 737, Embraer ERJ and Dornier 328 aircraft, with Boeing 737 MAX and Embraer E195-E2 aircraft on order to renew and expand the fleet in the future. Air Peace will likely launch additional long-haul flights in the future, as it has two other Boeing 777 aircraft in the fleet that will not be utilized, consisting of one smaller 777-200ER and one larger 777-300ER. 

 Additionally, the aircraft operating the Sharjah flight should be able to operate a second flight, as it should have extra 
space in its schedule during the week.
This certainly will be a game changer in the aviation space in Nigeria. 

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